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In the Gothic epoch the topic of the Virgin of the Milk is represented by an accessible Virgin surrounded with musical angels that entertain Jesus' nutrition and which one allows to the mother to sit to give the breast as a Virgin of Humility. In the Virgin with the Child of the hermitage of Holy Caterina de Torroella de Montgrí, the child embraces with both hands a mammary gland that emerges for a buttonhole of an elegant garment. Jesus' gown has a few suggestive representative little birds of the soul that, redeemed of her captivity, search I shelter in God. |
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Virgin of Tobed, probably of the painter Jaime Serra, of the collection
Roman Vicente of Saragossa, places between 1.370 and 1.397. There presents
also a reclined Virgin who with her hands of graceful fingers embraces
and receives a baby dependent on the painter. Again the archaic style
stays of manifest for the lack of expressiveness of the angels. It is
interesting to observe the portrait of Enrique II of Trastamara in the
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The
Virgin of the Milk proceeding from Penella's sanctuary (Cocentaina)
in Alicante, she proves to be to us also a Virgin sat with the stylized
hands that support tenderly a baby who also holds on the chest(breast).
There is interesting the detail of the stars of the garment of the Virgin,
who is surrounded by an angelic courtship, isocefálico and uniformly. |
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| http://www.wga.hu/tours/spain/p_14_15.html#italo Bibliography Trens,Manuel. "María.Iconografía de la Virgen y el arte español".Ed. Plus Ultras.Madrid.1946 Company,X. "Madonnas y Vírgenes".Ed.: Fundación Cultural de la Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo. 1995. |
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