Further on this, see Christopher Norton, David Park and Paul
Binski, Dominican Painting in East Anglia: The Thornham Parva
Retable and the Musée de Cluny Frontal (1987).
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
On 14 Jun 00, at 14:54, Dr BA Williamson, Department of History o wrote:
> Yes, she is holding her breast: it sounds as though the painting being
> described is what is usually called the Musee de Cluny frontal (or
> some such), and which seems to have been related to a retable in
> England known as the Thornham Parva retable, after the village where it
> is still kept.
>
> The first scene of four is the Virgin feeding the Child at the
> Nativity, the second is the Death of the Virgin, the third is the
> Adoration of the Magi, and the fourth the Education of the Virgin.
>
> The Thornham Parva retable and the Cluny frontal are reproduced
> together in the Age of Chivalry Exhibition Catalogue (eds. Alexander
> and Binski), London, Royal Academy, 1987, p. 448.
>
> Beth Williamson
>
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:21:09 +0100 [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> >
> > Is the Virgin at Cluny definitely holding her breast? I have come across
> > images of the Virgin holding an apple or similar round object out to the
> > Child. These do tend to be read as proxy breasts - the apple is still
> > symbolic of nourishment. I have also come across pictures of the Virgin and
> > Child with a bird - which could be the Holy Spirit or possibly the natural
> > world?
> >
> > Maddy
> >
> >
> > Dr Madeleine Gray
> > Department of Humanities and Science
> > UWCN
> >
> > 'Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought'
> >
> >
>
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> Dr Beth Williamson,
> Department of History of Art
> University of Bristol
> 36 Tyndalls Park Road
> Bristol, BS8 1PL
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