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A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350-1750
A Complex Delight The Secularization of the Breast 13501750
Author: Margaret R. Miles
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 ca...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520253483
ISBN-10: 0520253485
Publication Date: 1/7/2008
Pages: 196
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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