A. Ivanova. Mother with a Breastfed Baby
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Basic information
- ID
- Ivanova-75
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- A. Ivanova. Mother with a Breastfed Baby
- Date of creation
- 1922
- Technique
- photocopy (printed on paper)
Additionally
- Genre
- everyday life
- Provenance
- Antonina Ivanova's archive
- Place
- Kyiv (the Ukrainian SSR)
Information about author
Object description
On the back of the photo is an inscription in russian written in blue ballpoint pen: "Mother with a breastfed baby". As in some of the artist's other works, we see a version of a living sanctity using the well-known iconographic type of the Virgin Mary – the Galaktotrophousa – known from the paintings of the Roman catacombs of the 2nd-3rd centuries (the catacomb of the Holy Martyr Priscilla), which in turn is associated with the image of the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis feeding her son, the god Horus. Undoubtedly, in the later practice of Gothic or Renaissance authors, one can find various variants of this image. However, in the work by Antonina Ivanova, we believe that it is the Eastern Christian iconic context, in which the theme of motherhood is sacralised in a particular way, that is striking. This type of Galaktotrophousa is also known in folk art, particularly in domestic icons, which could also have been a source for the development of the artistic image created by Antonina Ivanova.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
