Look into My Eyes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7890551 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank G Bosman (0000-0003-2100-1507, Tilburg University, corresponding author), Frank Bosman |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-55 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1703-289X • E-ISSN: 1703-289X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/jrpc.2025.aa104 |
| OpenAlex | W4408279964 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Dutch painter Hans Versteeg’s Madonna del Mare Nostrum (2017) depicts a woman and child wrapped in thermal blankets, seemingly just rescued from the sea. Its composition draws from Christian iconography, particularly Eastern Orthodox icons and Western Madonna-and-Child symbolism, recontextualizing these traditions by applying them to the contemporary, interrelated refugee and climate crises. Through a communication-oriented analysis, the author argues that this painting is an illustrative example of the cultural persistence of the Christian narrative complex in secularized contemporary Western society
Art · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Medicine · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Ophthalmology · Optometry
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |