25% DISCOUNT UNTIL 30.11 - Nicolo Pomarancio, known as Il Pomarancio - Virgin of the Milk - 16th

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"Virgin of Milk" or "Nursing Virgin" according to the Latin name "Virgo lactans".
It is one of the iconographic variations of Christian painting of the theme of the Virgin and Child.

Our painting is on its original canvas.
Signed on the back of the canvas "Ccques Pomarancio Rom. Pixit"

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It is one of the representations of the Virgin and Child, placed in a moment of intimacy

The oldest representation is in the catacombs of Rome and dates from the 2nd century. In the East, from the 6th - 7th century, an iconography called Galaktotrophousa (feeding with milk) developed.
In the West, a new style emerged, breaking away from the Byzantine influence, from the 13th century.
The Renaissance took hold of it, the figure of the Virgin of humility being very popular.
Some works, for example by Raphael, show the Child anticipating this moment, who grabs the edge of his mother's bodice.
She is known in Spain under the name of Nuestra Senora de la Leche or Virgen de la Leche.

Painters of the Middle Ages frequently represent the Child Jesus with an adult's head, the beginning of the baldness of the Made Man, because he is a puer senex, an old child, a pictorial way of representing that he is indeed the "Wisdom of God".
At the end of the Middle Ages and the pre-Renaissance, artists favored a naked or very lightly dressed Jesus, the sex generally very visible, with a more realistic child's body, the patrons of the works wanting to show the mystery of the Incarnation.
Italian painters drew a chubbier Jesus than those of Northern Europe, both for reasons of aesthetic preference, but perhaps also because of the influence of the climate on the growth of infants (influence of the sun and vitamin D).
The axis of the gazes between the mother and her child is frequently emphasized, as are the symbolic signs of the baby's fingers and hands.

Nicolo POMARANCIO, known as IL POMARANCIO (1520 - 1597)
Born in Pomarance, in the province of Pisa in Tuscany, he is an Italian materialist painter of the late Renaissance, the father of Antonio Circiquiani, nicknamed like him The email has been copied

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