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Jan 29, 2020 · “Portraying Pregnancy” demonstrates how contradictory attitudes towards pregnant women’s bodies go back centuries in art history. And it shows how those attitudes have shaped the way we see and understand women’s roles in history and in society.
Pregnancy in art covers any artistic work that portrays pregnancy. In art, as in life, it is often unclear whether an actual state of pregnancy is intended to be shown. A common visual indication is the gesture of the woman placing a protective open hand on her abdomen.
Why have portraits of mothers-to-be been so rare? An exhibition at London’s Foundling Museum explores a neglected genre
Mar 13, 2020 · 500 Years of Pregnant Women in Art. An exhibition in London examines how expecting mothers have been portrayed from the Middle Ages to to the digital era. Here are some of the highlights. Share...
From the 1560s to approximately 1630, pregnancy portraits were in fact quite common in England, explains Carrigan to the Times—but for centuries afterwards, they were quite rare. Part of the ...
Why was pregnancy scarcely portrayed in both religious and secular traditions of art history? And why did artists ignore, minimise, or even censor signs of pregnancy? Here is a brief art history considering the evolving portrayals of pregnancy throughout the ages.
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Apr 29, 2024 · Too somatic, too indelicate, too reflective of female subjectivity, the topic of pregnancy in art was broached with kid gloves until well into the 20th century, when visionaries like Frida...
