Madrid, Spain; October 2008
This, my friends, is a 17th century painting by Alonso Cano of Saint Bernard receiving the milk of the Virgin Mary. It’s on display at the Prado Museum in Madrid.
When people talk about being “catholic in their tastes”, somehow I don’t think this is quite what they have in mind.*
This post is part of Debbie at DeliciousBaby‘s Photo Friday feature – please visit her site to check out all the other contributions. If you enjoyed this post, you might also like my quirky Jesus post from earlier in the week.
* Of course, “catholic” in that phrase refers to the other meaning of “catholic” and not Roman Catholicism.
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The Prado has some funky stuff and I am off to pull out my book and look some more of it.
Thanks for the big smile!
I guess Mary didn’t bottle feed. Great pic Caitlin. My first thought was that the canvas was scratched!
Me too! Until I read the title and looked more closely. There’s a pic of a statue of Mary breast-feeding in my previous post. – Caitlin
At least she seems to have decent aim!
Nope, never saw anything like this or the breast-feeding Jesus in your other post…
Thanks for the chuckle.
Man, I’m not sure I could ever do that when I was nursing! But then I’m not the Virgin Mary either.