I have just been to see the film the Nativity and it brought a question to my mind. Why do we always put Mary in blue when we recreate the Nativity? Even in the film Mary changes into blue before she gives birth. Is there some relevance to blue or did people many years ago decide blue was a pretty colour and we just haven't changed it? I may of course be being really stupid and there may be a really obvious Biblical reference to it that I just don't know but if anybody has an answer I would be grateful to hear it.
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- Claire
- My name is Claire, I am 22 years old and am a graduate of the University of Portsmouth and now have a BA(Hons) degree in History. I am a Christian and attend the Salvation Army.I am engaged and getting married next year. I have just started a teacher training course in a secondary school in Havering.
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Blue is often used to symbolise purity - it certainly is in the army flag anyway. This would make sense as then it would symbolise the purity of the 'virgin' birth.
However, I do not recall blue being used to symbolise purity in the Bible. It was much more of a royal colour (see Exodus), maybe representing deity. This would also figure though, since Mary was pregnant with the Son of God!
Good ponderings, I like things like this. Its an interesting question.
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Hi Claire, Andy Hill here. Bit alarmed to read in your profile that Dale's only three years old... he looks older...
Lol thank you for the comment. Surprisingly no one else has picked that one up. Its a secret Dale keeps well hidden!!!! Hope all is well with you and V. x x
Yeah, sorry, professional habit (well, that's what I call my pedantry).
We're cool, in the process of selling and moving house. I'm trying to resist the temptation to start my own blog... mainly 'cos I'm a bit bored (not for want of work) and want something to do, but the con is I don't feel I've got anything particularly interesting to say.
If dale's 3 how old does that make rowan? hmmmmm
This is a medieval artistic invention. Mary has always had a special place in the Roman Catholic belief, and so when showing her in art, it was decided that she should somehow be 'special'. In those days, most paint pigments were made from substances found in the earth (they had no artificial dyes as such) so that yellow and brown wre made from types of earth called ochres, black was made from powdered charcoal, and red and white from lead oxides found in the earth. However, there was no cheap source of blue. The only source of blue pigment was the precious stone ultramarine which was more expensive to buy than gold leaf. So, frequently in religious paintings, the painting was done solely by using the cheap ocres and oxides easily obtained from the ground, but the only blue would be that worn by the Virgin Mary to make her stand out as someone very special indeed
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