Article ID: CBB213754132

La Vierge au lait, ou l'allaitement dans l'art chrétien (2021)

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Divine Motherhood is an unfathomable mystery of the Catholic faith. Artists have always approached it with fear, modesty and delicacy. The representations of pregnant virgins are rare. In contrast, Marian breastfeeding scenes have been widely disseminated in all countries of Christian culture, from Roman times to the sixteenth century. In the Middle Ages, Lorraine, a region in northern-east France, sheltered many workshops of famous sculptors. By taking into consideration some works preserved in the museum of La Cour dOr in Metz, I will interpret from a medical and artistic point of view the ones that divine breastfeeding inspired artists from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century in France and Europe. In doing so, I will describe the path from the figurative breastfeeding of the Son of God to the allegory of Virgin Mary as the nourisher of the whole human race, through the symbolic visions of Lactation of Saint Bernard and Saint Pierre Nolasco.

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Authors & Contributors
Geddes da Filicaia, Marco
Mascardi, Chiara
Maitane Urrutia-Aparicio
Gurunluoglu, Aslin
Pierce, Kathleen
Gurunluoglu, Raffi
Concepts
Medicine
Medicine and art
Medicine and gender
Breast feeding
Public health
Human anatomy
Time Periods
Medieval
Renaissance
17th century
16th century
Early modern
19th century
Places
France
Italy
United States
Europe
Bologna (Italy)
Florence (Italy)
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