Blood and Milk in Medieval ImageryThe wall painting Plague Image (also named the Image of Scourge, Mater omnium, The Virgin of Mercy, Our Lady of Protection, Mary the Mediatrix, Double Intercession, ...Combined Intercession, Our Lady’s Intercession etc.) in the Church of St. Primus in #rna near Kamnik in Slovenia, executed in 1504, at the end of the Middle Ages and at the dawn of the Renaissance in Central Europe, reflects well the passage between the two worlds of imagination and their visual representation. The triangular composition – with God the Father, the universal entity, at its apex, and lower with Christ exposing his wounds (Man of Sorrows, Imago pietatis) on the left, and Virgin Mary on the right, with her bosom bare – determines the believer’s perception. The scene combines the notions of birth, symbolized by the charity of Mary offering her milk, and death, symbolized by the cruelty of blood shed by Christ and the menacing sword of God the Father. At the time of their realization, the figures of Christ and Mary were meant to be spiritual, imaging the mysteries of the Eucharist and the Incarnation. The present text examines the question as to what extent the believers of the past connected, in their imagination, Christ’s nakedness and Mary’s bosom with parts of the body of a common human. The masked eroticism of the two figures put a stamp on this suggestive image which in the course of history provoced various reactions...
Avgust Černigoj (1898–1985), rojen v Trstu, umrl v Sežani, slikar in grafik, je med 2. svetovno vojno podobno kot Tone Kralj poslikal na Primorskem nekaj cerkva. 1945. leta, pred koncem vojne in po ...njej je poslikal farno cerkev v Knežaku in podružnično cerkev sv. Ane na Baču. Sv. Cirila je upodobil na Baču v prezbiteriju, sebe pa ovekovečil na hrbtni strani glavnega oltarja.Černigoj je bil nemiren in nenehno raziskujoč duh. Pot ga je zato zanesla marsikam po Evropi. Bil je avantgardist. Preživljal pa se je največ kot učitelj risanja, tudi v Postojni. Med vojno je poslikal cerkev v Košani. Po drugi svetovni pa je se do upokojitve služboval kot učitelj risanja na tržaškem slovenskem liceju in na tržaškem slovenskem učiteljišču. Zadnja leta je preživljal v Lipici. Velja za utemeljitelja našega konstruktivizma. Leta 1976 je za svoj opus prejel Prešernovo nagrado.Vir: https://www.kamra.si/album-slovenije/item/trzaski-slikar-cernigoj-med-2-vojno-na-bacu-in-v-knezaku.html
