"-modified- with fig leaves" - sounds painful!

I don't much buy that interpretation of the painting.

One thing that did strike me though: the supposedly "dead" Virgin looks pregnant. That, alone, would make it highly heretical. The woman seated next to her would seem to be a mid-wife, given the bowl of water and cloth at her feet. It was probably these factors that Poussin found offensive, rather than anything more sordid, implied or imagined.

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-Joe.






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