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Milk and Miracles: Heteroglossia and Dissent in Venetian Religious Art after the Council of Trent

Jutta Sperling
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (2): 285–319.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-8929073
Published: 01 May 2021
..., religious lactation imagery functioned as a visual trope of dissent. We can thus infer that breastfeeding imagery abounded at the Scuola dei Mercanti, a decorative program that Benedetto Caliari spearheaded with a provocative portrayal of a bare-breasted wet-nurse in his Nativity of the Virgin Mary...
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