clement's Journal

Штейнберг о потрёпывании по подбородку или замечание на полях Содома.
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L.Steinberg "Metaphors of Love and Birth in Michelangelo's Pietas" Studies in Erotic Art, New York, 1970. Статья найдена

genys@lj, за что ей огромное спасибо. Цитирую статью дословно, добавляя иллюстрации по мере возможного.

The motif of the Child touching the Virgin's chin occurs in the Byzantine Madonna type known as the "Virgin of Sweet Love," or Glykophilousa. As a love gesture expressing a tenderness at once childlike and faintly precocious, it passes into the art of the West. There, from the twelfth to the seventeenth century, and irrespective of its use or disuse in life situations, the "chin-chuck" remains a conventional iconographic sign for sexual love in iconic devotional imagery as well as in secular erotic art.

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