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Unlocking Christian Art: The Virgin Mary. Holy Kinship

Theologian

Ben Quash


Duration

4.52


Uploaded to YouTube

21 June 2023

Added to Database

25 November 2025


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This film is part of a series focusing on one of Christianity’s central figures: The Virgin Mary.

It focuses on the Holy Kinship and discusses Hans Thoman’s Holy Kinship (c.1515) in the Bode-Museum, Berlin.

Presented by VCS Director Professor Ben Quash and Deputy Director Dr Jennifer Sliwka.

Artwork: Hans Thoman, Holy Kinship, c.1515, Limewood, Bode-Museum, Berlin, inv. no. 5585.

Part of the Series Unlocking Christian Art. Produced in partnership with the National Museums in Berlin, these short films tell the story of the Virgin Mary with the help of the treasures of the Bode-Museum and the Gemäldegalerie, both sculpture and painting. These films are designed to equip users to understand, read, and enjoy some of Europe’s greatest works of Christian art, as well as the texts that inspired them, and to encourage fresh interpretation and insight in today’s audiences.