"She makes it look so easy, and she's never punishing the Christ child, or giving him a time-out."
Lecturer Jean Sorabella finds inspiration in idealized depictions of mothers.
Connections: Motherhood
Lecturer Jean Sorabella finds inspiration in idealized depictions of mothers.
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Mary Cassatt
ca. 1899
Thomas Seir Cummings
1841
India (Tamil Nadu, Pudukkottai and Tanjavur districts)
early 12th century
Kitagawa Utamaro
1790
Jean Antoine Houdon
1779, after a portrait of 1777
Greek
ca. 450–440 BCE
Greek
3rd–2nd century BCE
Giovanni Bellini
late 1480s
Dieric Bouts
ca. 1455–60
Camille Corot
1835
Gerard David
ca. 1500
Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Charles Pompée Le Boulanger de Boisfrémont
?1813–17; 1823–24?
Guido Reni
ca. 1630
Peter Paul Rubens
probably mid-1630s
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)
ca. 1508
Edgar Degas
1874
ca. 1353–1336 B.C.