On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Caroline Usher wrote:
> At 11:47 PM 9/18/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Many old paintings (of skill and sensitivity) depict a young woman holding
> >a nude Christ, with the baby wearing an adult-like face and making a
> >religious hand symbol.
>
> Could you cite an example or two so I can see what you are talking about?
These do not look like baby faces to me. Especially around the eyes. I
guess it (the adult face) was a symbol of authority which the folks back
then needed to feel secure, like they needed kings and an infallible
omnipotent Church.
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/oz574.html
http://virtualart.admin.tomsk.ru/lippi/p-lippi1.htm
http://www.dia.org/collections/euroart/renaissance/77.3.html
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