Wet Nurses, Midwives, and the Virgin Mary in Tintoretto’s Birth of Saint John the Baptist (1563)

Sperling, Jutta

doi:10.4324/9781315594743-13

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“…However, Williamson (1996Williamson ( , 2009 remains the point of reference in studies on the iconographic types of the Madonna Lactans and the Virgin of Humility, as well as on the relationship between Eve and Mary (Williamson 1998). Sperling (2013Sperling ( , 2018aSperling ( , 2018bSperling ( , 2021, Rivera (2016), Arroñada (2008) and Bergmann (2002) have studied the use of wet nurses; however, scholars have not reached agreement on the consideration of breastfeeding and the hiring of wet nurses in the Middle Ages. Moreover, as we will see later, painted images have contributed to this confusion.…”

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The Nursing Madonna in the Middle Ages: An Interdisciplinary Study

Martínez

2023

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Because of the transgression of the first woman Eve, all medieval women bore the punishment, including the biological consequences related to pregnancy and birth. This affected the entire female gender, according to Judeo-Christian tradition. Although Mary was able to avoid some biological consequences, this was not the case with breastfeeding. This work aims to study sacred images—and especially those of the Nursing Mary—from an interdisciplinary point of view, by delving into rather unconventional sources such as medical treatises, whose perception of the female body may have influenced the creation and reception of certain iconographic types of the Virgin.

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Wet Nurses, Midwives, and the Virgin Mary in Tintoretto’s Birth of Saint John the Baptist (1563)

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