A Complex Delight by Margaret R. Miles - Hardcover - University of

A Complex Delight by Margaret R. Miles - Hardcover - University of

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Looking at painting and sculpture from the fourteenth through the eighteenth centuries, this provocative work focuses on the symbolism of the female breast to open a dazzling interpretive view of Western European history over four centuries. Margaret R. Miles finds that while in 1350 the Virgin's bare breast represented nourishment and loving care--God's provision for the Christian--by 1750, artistic representations of the breast were either erotic or medical.

A Complex Delight by Margaret R. Miles - Hardcover - University of California Press

A Complex Delight by Margaret R. Miles - Hardcover - University of California Press

A Complex Delight by Margaret R. Miles - Hardcover - University of California Press

A Complex Delight by Margaret R. Miles - Hardcover - University of California Press

A Complex Delight by Margaret R. Miles - Hardcover - University of California Press