Bikira Maria katika sanaa

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**Bikira Maria katika sanaa** anajitokeza sana (hasa katika uchoraji na uchongaji) tangu zamani sana (karne ya 2 na ya 3) kulingana na maendeleo ya heshima ya Wakristo kwake hasa baada ya Mtaguso wa Efeso (431) uliokubali jina "Mama wa Mungu" kuwa sahihi. 

Kwa kuwa ukuu wake mwenyewe unamtegemea tu Yesu Mwanae, mara nyingi wako pamoja (hasa katika Ukristo wa Mashariki), lakini pengine anaonyeshwa peke yake. 

Michoro yake ya kale zaidi inapatikana katika makatakombu ya Roma, ingawa inasimuliwa (hasa Mashariki) kuwa Mwinjili Luka alimchora Bikira Maria akiwa hai. 

Namna za kumchora baadaye zilitofautiana sana upande wa Ukristo wa Magharibi wakati wa Renaissance (Duccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giovanni Bellini, Caravaggio na Rubens) na baadaye (Salvador Dalí na Henry Moore), kumbe upande wa Mashariki wasanii waliendelea kuzingatia vielelezo vilivyokubalika kimapokeo.

Muhammad alipotakasa Kaaba kwa kuondoa sanamu na michoro yote, aliokoa ile ya Bikira Maria na mtoto Yesu na Abrahamu.

## Michoro

File:Brooklyn Museum - Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Zenobius John the Baptist Reparata and John the Evangelist - Nardo di Cione.jpg|Nardo di Cione, *Madonna na Mtoto wametawazwa pamoja na Wat. Zenobi, Yohane Mbatizaji, Reparata na Yohane Mwinjili*, katikati ya karne ya 14, Brooklyn Museum, Marekani
File:Como - San Fedele - Madonna in Mandorla.jpg|*Madonna katika Lozi*, Wolfgang Sauber, karne ya 12
File:Duccio The-Madonna-and-Child-with-Angels-1.jpg|*Madonna na Malaika*, Duccio, 1282
File:Our Mother of Perpetual Help.jpg|Mama Yetu wa Msaada wa Daima, karne ya 13 au 14
File:Mary & Child Icon Sinai 13th century.jpg|Maria na Mwanae aina ya Hodegetria. karne ya 13, Monasteri ya Mt. Katerina, Sinai, Misri
File:Stefan Lochner 007.jpg|*Madonna katika bustani ya mawaridi*, Stefan Lochner 1448
File:Jan van Eyck 070.jpg|*Madonna wa Chansela Rolin*, Jan van Eyck, 1435 hivi
File:Madona del gran duque, por Rafael.jpg|*Madonna wa Mtemi*, Raphael, 1505
File:Raphael - The Madonna of the Pinks.jpg|*Madonna wa Vibanda*, Raphael, kabla ya 1507
File:Quentin Massys-Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels-Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon.jpg|*Madonna na Mwanae na Malaika*, Quentin Matsys, 1509 hivi
File:Gnadenbild Mariahilf, Innsbruck.jpg|*Maria Msaada*, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530 hivi
Baldung Vierge treille mba mb.jpg|*Madonna katika Kibanda cha Mzabibu*, Hans Baldung, 1541 hivi, Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame, Strasbourg, Ufaransa
Greco Virgin Mary.jpg|Bikira Maria alivyochora na El Greco, 1600 hivi, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, Ufaransa
File:Sassoferrato - Jungfrun i bön.jpg|*Bikira Akisali*, Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, 1640–1650. National Gallery, London, Uingereza
File:Torelli Virgin c.jpg|*Bikira na Mtoto pamoja na Malaika na Watakatifu*, Felice Torelli, karne ya 17
File:Ethiopia-Axum Cathedral-fresco-Black Madonna.JPG|Mchoro wa ukutani wa Madonna Mweusi na Yesu, Axum, Ethiopia

## Sanamu

File:Coptic - Virgin and Child - Walters 71297.jpg|Sanamu ya mpingu ya Misri, karne ya 7
File:Essen muenster goldene madonna-4.jpg|Madonna ya dhahabu ya Essen, 980 hivi
File:Presbyter Martinus Madonna als Sedes Sapientiae.jpg|Presbyter Martinus: *Madonna as Seat of Wisdom*, Italia, 1199
Barcelona Cathedral Interior - Chapel of Our Lady of Montserrat.jpg|*Madonna Mweusi*, Barcelona, Hispania
File:Pantheon-raphaels-tomb.jpg|Madonna kaburini pa Raphael, Pantheon, Roma, Italia
File:SemanaSantaSevillaElBuenFin2.jpeg|Madonna kwa ajili ya maandamano ya Juma Kuu huko Seville, Hispania
File:Madonna, statue, Ottawa.jpg|Sanamu katika kanisa kuu la Ottawa, Ontario, Kanada
File:Shrine to the Virgin Mary.JPG|Madonna barabarani Ocieka, Polandi
File:Amaro Mondsichelmadonna 13102007 51.jpg|Madonna huko Friuli, Italia
File:La Conquistadora.jpg|La Conquistadora, kabla ya 1625, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Marekani
File:Shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham, Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania).jpg|Patakatifu pa Our Lady of Walsingham, Rosemont, Pennsylvania, Marekani

## Michoro midogo

File:Codexaureus lorsch-evangiles-reliure-ivoire-marie-detail.jpg|Jalada la mpingu la Codex Aureus of Lorsch, Ujerumani, 800 hivi
File:Svanhild-Evangeliar.jpg|*Masomo ya Injili ya Svanhild*, 1058–1085, Essen, Ujerumani

## Viungo vya nje 
* Metropolitan Museum: The Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages
 by Estelle M. Hurll (First printed 1897)

## Tanbihi
Jamii:Bikira Maria
Jamii:sanaa za Kikristo