“Mary has filled me with amazement that she gave milk to the One who feeds the multitudes”: Notes on the Byzantine Iconography of Maria Galaktotrophousa

• Authors: Smorąg-Różycka, Małgorzata

Abstracts

EN

The image of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the Christ Child belongs to the most fascinating and yet least researched themes of Byzantine Marian iconography. In the past it has been assumed that the images of the Virgin Galaktotrophousa derived from the art of the Italian Duecento and Trecento in the post-Byzantine period. However, there is sufficient ground to assume that these images were known already in the Middle Byzantine period and were popular during the period of the Paleologian dynasty.

Keywords

EN

Byzantine art; Byzantine iconography; The Virgin; Virgo Lactans; Galaktotrophousa; The Virgin iconography

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Ikonotheka
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 27
• Pages: 5-26

Dates

published

2018-08-06

Contributors

author

Smorąg-Różycka, Małgorzata

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0012.2314