Meister by Stephan Kemperdick6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The cloth enveloping the Child thus could allude both to the shroud used to wrap Christ’s body at his Entombment and to the altar cloth on which the sacramental host is displayed. 108) considered the Virgin’s crossed arms as a reference to Christ’s sacrifice. ![]() Centrally located within a confined space, the Virgin personifies the Church and the Ara Coeli, the tabernacle for the body and blood of Christ (Ainsworth 1996). 1324), for example, Christ intercedes before God the Father by showing his wounds, and the Virgin does so by showing her bared breasts, thus equating the blood of Christ with the milk of the Virgin. In the popular Speculum Humanae Salvationis (ca. In terms of late medieval thought, the nursing Virgin was considered an intercessor for humankind. The motif of the Christ Child suckled in his mother’s arms derives from thirteenth century Byzantine icons, specifically the type known as the galactrophousa (or by its Latin name, Virgo lactans), which were imported to the Burgundian Netherlands in the fifteenth century. Her long, curly hair cascades down her shoulders. She wears a blue underdress beneath a very pale blue robe and mantle. The Painting: In a small apsidal chapel, the Virgin Mary tenderly embraces the Christ Child while nursing him. ![]()
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