The Roman Charity : queer lactations in early modern visual culture /

The ancient stories of Pero, who breastfed her father, and of the unnamed Roman daughter, who breastfed her mother, were of tremendous interest to artists and their audiences from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. "The Roman Charity" investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding da...

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Main Author: Sperling, Jutta Gisela
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2016]
Series:Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; 87.
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Online Access:CONNECT