In the magnificent current El Greco exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, there is a picture of the “Holy Family” in which the mother is nursing the child with an expression of infinite tend

In the magnificent current El Greco exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, there is a picture of the “Holy Family” in which the mother is nursing the child with an expression of infinite tenderness and love. The curator of the exhibit, a woman, has affixed a placard to the wall asserting that the painter was fetishizing the mother, just the way the author of the Song of Songs had fetishized his beloved. That’s not bad for an ideological jab. You knock over two masterpieces — one artistic, one literary — with a single back of your hand.