The Oedipal urges of Alonso Cano (1601, Granada, d. 1667, Granada) are manifest in his "Vision of Saint Bernard" (1650). Saint Bernard, who arrived at the altar on the point of starvation, is miraculously and remotely breastfed by the Virgin while Bernard's (Cano's) father looks on in humiliation and pleads them to stop.

Bernard of Clairvaux was not one to look an equine present-giver in an external opening in the head, through which most animals admit food and emit communicative sounds. Clairvaux's "feminamulgence" machine, which preceded the Murchland and Thistle milkers by nearly a thousand years, was to make both Saint Bernard and his Vatican investors a small fortune by the time of Bernard's death in 1153.