Annie takes note of the ways that early medieval renderings of Mary and the Baby Jesus often depicted the child's features as mature, already imbued with wisdom, and how those conceptions changed later in the renaissance period as more infant-like.
Some art movies that may be of interest:
- Maudie, a 2016 biopic about Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis
- Kusama: Infinity, a 2018 documentary about Japanese painter Yayoi Kusama.
- Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2016)
- Mr. Turner, a 2014 biographical drama about the later years of English Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner
