Mary - Special Edition

Name: Mary - Special Edition
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ISBN: 9798235321700

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Karmen-Ita
03 April 2026

Biography: religious & spiritual; New Testaments

She was a girl from a village of two hundred people in Roman-occupied Galilee. The journey to Judea took ten days on foot. Maternal mortality was real. The world she lived in was small, hard, and precise.

And yet.

Mary tells her story not through dogma, but through history. Forty-four chapters, forty-four original artworks created in classical realism with Renaissance and Caravaggesque influences - from childhood in Nazareth, through the Annunciation, the Visitation with Elizabeth, and the return home.

Each chapter is grounded in documented sources: biblical texts, rabbinic literature, the writings of Josephus and Philo of Alexandria, archaeology of Roman Palestine, anthropological studies of ancient Mediterranean culture. This is not catechism. It is historical-narrative writing that makes the familiar strange again - and the extraordinary visible in its ordinariness.

The forty-four images are the visual core of the project. Pictorial portraits that follow Mary through her world with attention to clothing, architecture, and landscape, while maintaining the artistic freedom that beauty requires.

Bilingual Italian and English. Because Mary of Nazareth belongs to world history - and this book is a contemporary contribution to the millennial tradition of sacred art that makes the invisible visible.

KARMEN-ITA

By: Karmen-Ita
Imprint: Karmen-Ita
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 222g
ISBN: 9798235321700
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 03 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

KARMEN-ITA is an Italian author and artist. Her work moves freely across different forms of expression - writing, visual art, and storytelling - always in search of the essential.

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