This research data set is derived from the publication: Lewandowska, Julia, “Saint Anne The Teacher: Women’s Literacy, Sainthood and Biblical Memory in the post-Tridentine Spain”, in: Thaúmata: critical and underrepresented perspectives on hagiography and hagiographic studies, ed. Aitor Boada Benito. Leiden: Brill, 2025, pp. 227-255.
The data set includes transcriptions in Spanish and translation into English of selected source material:
Biblioteca Nacional Española, Spain, Pinelo, Valentina, Libro de las Alabanças y Excelencias de la Gloriosa Santa Anna, Sevilla: por Clemente Hidalgo, 1601.
And images representing the paintings and sculptural grups of Saint Anne teaching Mary to read from the early modern Spanish, Italian and German contexts. Also there are representations of Saint Anne and Saint Anne Triplex.
images:
Figure 1. The Virgin and Child, Saint Anne, and Saint Emerentia. A sculptural group, 1515–30, Made in possibly Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. [OA public domain]
Figure 2. Anonymous, Wall painting - Saint Anne [of Nubia] (fragment of figure), c. 8th-9th c., Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie. [OA Public domain, photo credit Piotr Ligier]
Figure 3. Michaelina Wautier. De opvoeding van Maria, met mogelijk een zelfportret, 1656. Hague, Netherlands Institute for Art History, Collection RKD.
Figure 4. Luisa Roldán. The Education of the Virgin, ca. 1680s. Gift of the 2019 Collectors Committee with additional funds from Linda Borick and Bill Davidson on behalf of the Louis L. Borick Foundation, Los Angeles ©LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Open Access Public Domain
Figure 5. Esteban Murillo. Santa Ana enseñando a leer a la Virgen, c. 1665, Madrid, Museo del Prado [Archivo Fotográfico Museo Nacional del Prado]
Figure 6. José Montes de Oca, Santa Ana enseñando a leer a la Virgen. A culptural group, 1714, Seville, Iglesia de Salvador. [Photo credit Julia Lewandowska]
The dataset also includes the publication abstract (ENG) and selected bibliography on the topic.