Silence of the Lambs 5

the virgin and child with st.anne is a painting by l.d.v. demonstrating the V of the eternal feminine and the the bird or vulture theme signifying perhaps a childhood wish-fulfillment by l.d.v., far far away in idyllic childhood is the land spoofed by sfumato and charming in its pristine natural beauty, man and woman is separated from this nature in the foreground and presented in a triangular mystic union. the vulture connects all three figures and the lamb even through animal kinship, it's almost uncanny how the double-motherhood of Freud is also prefigured in this painting, how his repressed homosexual wish-fulfillment could be so serenely expressed, and the smiles of the saint and the virgin are double-minded also for Christ is to be the sacrificial lamb and they are trying to drag him out of that role. the vulture, then, becomes a satanic connector via hermes trimegistes and the shadowy structure of the vulture whether translated right or not, there is a vulture-like shroud in the painting which is dream-like and repressed, not manifest, expressing ambivalence.