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.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Picturing-Mary-Exhibition_07_15999-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)