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That would be my guess too, I also seem to recall that it
was supposed to keep away the evil eye.
Katherine French
On Mon, 31 May 2010 21:59:30 +0100
Bonnie Blackburn <[log in to unmask]>
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> Is it perhaps a piece of coral? I've seen that
>elsewhere. It occurred to me that it might be a
>prefiguration of the crown of thorns.
>
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> From: Marjorie Greene
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> Subject: [M-R] Help with iconography
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval
>religion and culture Doctissimi,
> I recently saw an image at Venice's Accademia
>that puzzled me. Unfortunately the guards were too thick
>and too serious to get a photo past, and scanning the
>image from the book of the collection was beyond me. And
>I can't find this image anywhere on the 'net.
> Here is the description:
> Scuola Veneta della Fine del XIV Secolo
> Altarolo portatile
> At the top of the altar is a Man of Sorrows.
>Directly beneath it is a Madonna col Bambino, typical in
>every way but one: there is a red symbol on the Child's
>chest that looks like nothing so much as a Chinese
>symbol. One could suppose a bleeding heart is intended to
>be portrayed but it does not resemble a heart at all. It
>seems to me that it must be symbolic of the Passion
>awaiting the Child but I've never seen anything like this
>before. The only other image with similar Passion
>connotation is Bellini's "Presentation in the Temple," in
>which the Child is swaddled in what looks like a burial
>cloth/winding sheet, which we also saw in Venice at the
>Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia.
> Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
> MG
>
>
> Marjorie Greene
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