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- Title
The Madonna and the Cuckoo: An Exploration in European Symbolic Conceptions.
- Authors
Vaz Da Silva, Francisco
- Abstract
Explores the symbolic conceptions of the Madonna and the bird in the European ethnographic perception. Exploration for the discrepancy of the cultural details on the Our Lady of the Abbey statue, the main statue of an old Marian sanctuary in Portugal; Indications for the importance of the bird motif in the image; Identity and the semantic import of birds in the hand of Jesus seating in the arms of Mary and of Joseph.
- Subjects
CHRISTIAN art &; symbolism; BIRDS in religion; JESUS Christ -- Family; ARCHETYPE (Psychology); PRIMITIVE art; FOLKLORE; ETHNOLOGY methodology; SYMBOLISM; BIRDS in the Bible
- Publication
Comparative Studies in Society & History, 2004, Vol 46, Issue 2, p273
- ISSN
0010-4175
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0010417504000143