[Romulus]

I once saw a similar image in Mexico, of a saintly woman offering her generous breast to a dying old man. I won't claim that my 11-year-old eyes weren't startled, but what took me aback more than anything was the exaggerated pietism and emotional manipulativeness of the painting, rather than any sexual shock. I was embarassed by the picture, but only because I thought it mawkish, not indecent. Anyway, I survived that trauma and lived to tell the tale.

[annalex]

I once saw a similar image in Mexico, of a saintly woman offering her generous breast to a dying old man.

Why, that's the Carita Romana episode also in Caravaggio:

The Seven Acts of Mercy

Caravaggio

1607
Oil on canvas, 390 x 260 cm
Church of Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples

The seven acts of mercy represented on the painting are the following. On the right appear the (1) burial of the dead and the episode of the so-called Carita Romana (Cimon's daughter giving her father suck in prison), which contains at once the two charitable acts of (2) visiting prisoners and (3) feeding the hungry. (4) Dressing the naked appears in the foreground, symbolized by St. Martin and the beggar. Next to this scene, the host and St. James of Compostela allude to the (5) offering of hospitality to pilgrims. (6) Relieving the thirsty is represented by Samson drinking from the ox jaw. The youth on the ground behind the beggar of St. Martin may also represent the merciful gesture of (7) caring for the sick.

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