Madonna and Child

Spotted: "All Paintings" on Pinterest, after Google Image Search, 26 August 2018

"Madonna and Child," which is part of the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art is by Guido Reni, a High Baroque painter identified with the School of Bologna, which rivaled Florence and Rome as capitals of painting. He was nearly 70 years old when he died in 18 August 1642.

The image of the Blessed Mary's nursing (i.e. breastfeeding) the infant Jesus is one of the Catholic Church's best depictions of motherly love. By virtue of Republic Act No. 10028, the month of August is designated as Breastfeeding Awareness Month in the Philippines.

(And August is also my own Mom's birth month.)


[This post is antedated: 20180825]