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Record Number:
1825
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Sheingorn , Pamela.
Contributor(s):
Title:
The Maternal Behavior of God: Divine Father as Fantasy Husband
Source:
Medieval Mothering. Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler. Garland Publishing, 1996. Pages 77 - 99.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Art History- Painting
God the Father as Mother
Mary, Virgin, Saint
Masculinity
Nurturing Behavior
Patriarchy
Psychoanalytic Theory
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
General
Century:
14- 15
Primary Evidence:
Illustrations:
The medieval association of maternal behaviour with God the Father shared in the construction of His masculinity even as it communicated an image of male "tenderness and attentive concern." This buttressed normative heterosexuality and female submissiveness. [Reproduced by permission of Garland Publishing.]
Table:
Eight Figures. Figure One "Nativity," illustration to Primer of the "Hours of the Virgin," Book of Hours by the Master of the Munich Golden Legend, fol. 52v, circa 1430 (Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery MS W 288). Figure Two "The Transportation of the Holy House of Loreto, " woodcut made in Savoy, France, 1494 (Washington, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection). Figure Three "Nativity," Antwerp-Baltimore triptych, circa 1390 (Antwerp, Museum Mayer van den Bergh). Figure Four "Annunciation and Nativity," Altar of Knight of Stauffenberg, 1450-60 (Colmar, MusŽe d'Unterlinden). Figure Five "Madonna in a Wreath of Roses," woodcut made in Augsburg, 1490-1500 (Washington, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald collection). Figure Six Claude of France before her patron Saint Claude, "Primer of Claude of France," p.1 (Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 159). Figure Seven "The Expectant Madonna with Saint Joseph," oil and tempera on wood, fifteenth century (Washington, National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection). Figure Eight Seal of Margaret, Lady Hungerford and Botreaux (d.1478) (London, British Library, seal XCII.23).
Abstract:
Author's Affiliation:
Baruch College, City University of New York
Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1996.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0815323417