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Blood and Milk, Science and Culture: The Virgin as a Nursing Mother
Posted: February 4, 2015
Category: Virgin Mary
The figure of the Virgin Mary has been used in art as an ideal woman, poetic beauty, and perfect mother. An example within Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea of the Virgin...
View of a gallery space with blue walls. On the left is a painting of a woman in a dark blue dress in a golden frame. Next to it is a red cloth framed in glass.