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Nursing Madonna
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Image of the Virgin Mary breastfeeding the infant Jesus
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The Nursing Madonna, Virgo Lactans, or Madonna Lactans, is an iconographic type of the Madonna and Child in which the Virgin Mary is shown breastfeeding the Child Jesus. In Italian, it is called the Madonna del Latte ("Madonna of Milk"). It was common in paintings until the change in atmosphere after the Council of Trent, when it was rather...

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Titles of Mary, mother of Jesus
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Madonna and Child
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