Divinas tetas : a iconografia de Nossa Senhora do Leite no cristianismo ocidental / André Cabral Honor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Honor, André Cabral, author.

Series:

História (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

Coleção História

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Art.

Mary.

Breastfeeding in art.

Motherhood in art.

Mothers in art.

Christian saints in art.

Physical Description:

211 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Primeira edição, março 2025.

Other Title:

Iconografia de Nossa Senhora do Leite no cristianismo ocidental

Place of Publication:

Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil : Fino Traço Editora, 2025.

Language Note:

In Spanish.

Summary:

André Honor explores the image and symbolic representations of the figure of Our Lady of the Milk throughout the history of Western Christianity and, through a broad iconological approach, investigates how lactation was portrayed, venerated, and subsequently repressed in Western visual culture. His book offers a deep and interdisciplinary analysis of the construction and transformation of this devotion of the Virgin Mary in the Christian imagery tradition, examining how the iconography of the female lactating breast, central to Marian devotion, evolved from an early acceptance relatively well disseminated in the countries of Western Europe, to the decline of its representation from the Council of Trent. The work aims to investigate the paradox between the historical acceptance of the act of breastfeeding as a symbol of sacredness and purity, contrasted with the contemporary rejection of the visuality of breastfeeding in public spaces. The book defends the need to re-examine these cultural representations from a critical and emancipating perspective, proposing that the recognition of the plurality of meanings of the lactating breast - maternal, erotic, sacral and social - is an important step to demystify contemporary taboos and rescue female autonomy over her body

Contents:

Introdução

Capítulo 1. As mulheres de pedra: porque as vênus pré-históricas?

Capítulo 2. A deidade Rumina, salvadora de Rômulo e Remo

Capítulo 3. Juno, Júpiter e Hércules na criação da Via-Láctea de Tintoretto

Capítulo 4. A história de Charita: a alegoria da caridade

Capítulo 5. O que é uma Sibila? A Sibila Chimica ou Emeria

Capítulo 6. A mãe das mães: o caso de Sant'Anna

Capítulo 7. Iconografia de Nossa Senhora do Leite

Capítulo 8. Apropriações de elementos simbólicos: o leite e seus significados

Capítulo 9. A teta desaparecida

Considerações finais. A lua e a teta.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-211).

ISBN:

9788580546781

8580546788

OCLC:

1519508704