ID: 901002608 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002608	Record Type: Allegory/Symbolism/Theme

	Our Lady of the Ears of Wheat (Christian theme)

Note: Theme depicting the Virgin Mary, with or without the Christ Child, with ears of grain, symbolic of good harvests and abundance; she may be surrounded by wheat, in a gown decorated with ears of wheat, or otherwise with a reference to ears of wheat.

Names:

	Our Lady of the Ears of Wheat (Christian theme) (preferred,English-P,D)
	Madonna delle Spighe (tema della Vergine Maria) (Italian-P)
	Nostra Signora delle Spighe (tema della Vergine Maria) (Italian)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Christian iconography> (P)
		........<Christian allegory, symbolism, theme> (P)
		............<Themes surrounding the Virgin Mary> (I)
		................Our Lady of the Ears of Wheat (Christian theme) (P)

Sources:

	Our Lady of the Ears of Wheat (Christian theme)
	................New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition [online] (2003-)
	Madonna delle Spighe (tema della Vergine Maria)
	................ICCD database (1988-)
	Nostra Signora delle Spighe (tema della Vergine Maria)
	................New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition [online] (2003-)