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Title of Piece: Immaculate Heart of Mary
Date of Creation: 1926
Location: Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis
Brief Description: There are several stained glass windows in the sacristy one of which is this image of the Sacred Heart of Mary.
Artist Info: Gaytee Stained Glass Studios in Minneapolis, MN
Photographer Info: Mike Jensen, MInneapolis, MN

Title of Piece: Mother of God
Location: Collection of the Artist
Brief Description: This image is a brown bisque glass painting with three firings for shading. The dimensions are 12 inches high by 5 inches wide.
Artist Info: Sarah Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Photographer Info: Sarah Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Title of Piece: Mother and Child
Date of Creation: 2006
Location: Private collection
Brief Description: "While the image is modern, it conforms to many of the traditional formats of an icon. I made it in a completely traditional way, even grinding minerals to create my own pigments!"
Artist Info: Rachel Melrose
Photographer Info: Rachel Melrose

Title of Piece: Mary, the Teacher
Date of Creation: 1998
Location: Corpus Christi University Parish, Toledo, Ohio
Brief Description: hammered copper
Artist Info: Steve Shields (1947-1998)
Photographer Info: Photo provided by Corpus Christi University Parish, Toledo, Ohio U.S.A.

Title of Piece: Mary Quilt
Date of Creation: 1997
Location: Private Collection
Artist Info: Carol Tombers is a Minnesota artist who works predominantly with paint and textiles.
Photographer Info: Johan van Parys, Minneapolis, MN

Title of Piece: Madonna and Child
Date of Creation: 2005
Location: Private collection
Brief Description: Acrylic on canvas
Artist Info: Dorothy Woodward, rsj is a Sister of St.Joseph living in Newcastle, NSW, Australia who works full time in liturgical art. Much of her work is in designing leadlight windows for churches, schools and hospitals and logos for various liturgical events. In addition she creates liturgical clip art for LiturgyPlanningImages.com.au.
Photographer Info: Dorothy Woodward rsj Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Title of Piece: Mary, Mother of the City
Date of Creation: 2005
Location: St. Joseph’s Church, Lamb’s Passage, Bunhill Row, London
Brief Description: Surprisingly this Icon, entitled Mary, Mother of the City does not have buildings in it which would refer to the city. Instead, Mary is standing in a beautiful landscape with a river flowing through it. The former refers to the old London City area of Bunhill Fields, while the latter is the river Thames.
Artist Info: Stephane Renee is a French-born Coptic Iconographer
Photographer Info: Martin Prendergast, London, Great Britain

Title of Piece: Our Lady of Guadalupe
Date of Creation: 2004
Location: Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis
Brief Description: This mosaic was made in the Vatican Mosaic Studios after the original image that is preserved in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.
Photographer Info: Mike Jensen, Minneapolis, MN

Title of Piece: Our Lady of LaVang
Date of Creation: 2004
Location: Basilica of Saint Mary, Minneapolis
Brief Description: This sculpture of the Patron Saint of Vietnam was created by an unknown artist in Vietnam.
Photographer Info: Michael Jensen, Minneapolis, MN

Title of Piece: Our Lady of Sorrows
Location: Private collection
Brief Description: This retablo shows Our Lady of Sorrows who is the Patroness of children, women in childbirth, compassion, and sinners. Traditionally seven daggers are piercing her heart which represent her seven sorrows. Sometimes one dagger represents all seven.
Artist Info: Gabriel Vigil is a santero in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer Info: Michael Jensen, Minneapolis, MN.

Title of Piece: Mary had a Little Lamb
Location: Private collection
Brief Description: Bronze
Artist Info: Lucinda Naylor (please see featured artists for more information on Lucinda's work)
Photographer Info: Johan van Parys, Minneapolis, MN

Title of Piece: Madonna and Child with Angels
Date of Creation: 2006
Location: Private collection
Brief Description: Medium: oil on board; Size: 11x14; "I take at face value the definition of icons as "theology in color." My work has many sources: the sacred art of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, traditional Byzantine icons, art of the medieval period of Western Europe, outsider or folk art, and traditional decorative arts."
Artist Info: Kay Vass Darling
Photographer Info: Kay Vass Darling

Title of Piece: The Aymara Mother and Child
Location: Church of the Ascension, Minneapolis, MN
Brief Description: The Aymara Mother and Child is one of a series of fourteen panels with representations of the Blessed Mother inspired by Native American culture and art (e.g. Hopi, Sioux, Navajo, Lakota...)
Artist Info: Fr. John B. Giuliani was born in a family of Italian emigrants. He attended the Pratt School of Art in New York City, before entering St. John Seminary in Brighton, MA. He was ordained a priest in 1960. In 1989 he began studying Russian Orthodox iconography, a technique which he adapted to Native American motifs. His education and spirituality lead to a combination of painting with acrylics while using the "icon writing" process and drawing from American Indian inspiration.
Photographer Info: Mike Jensen, Minneapolis, MN

Title of Piece: Madonna
Brief Description: Mosaic reproduction of Bernardino Luini’s Virgin. 19” square. Smalti, 24K gold smalti.
Artist Info: Lynne Chinn, an award winning graphic designer and professional oil painter began creating and installing luxurious mosaic surfaces since 2001. She has designed, produced and installed commissions as small as 12" square or as large as 6' high x 72' wide.
Photographer Info: Lynne Chinn, Chicago, IL

Title of Piece: The Annunciation (detail)
Location: Annunciation Education Center, Mt. Angel Abbey, St. Benedict, Oregon
Brief Description: The Annunciation (detail). 9’h x 6’w Venetian and Muranese Smalti, 24K Gold Smalti
Artist Info: Lynne Chinn, an award winning graphic designer and professional oil painter began creating and installing luxurious mosaic surfaces since 2001. She has designed, produced and installed commissions as small as 12" square or as large as 6' high x 72' wide.
Photographer Info: Lynne Chinn, Chicago, IL