Virgin with Child and the Infant Saint John the Baptist Family and family relations Maternity / Paternity This small-scale work of the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus and the infant Saint John was painted for private veneration. This type of arrangement, known at...
Virgin and Child Family and family relations This Virgin and Child, signed by a turn-of-the-century Austrian painter, exemplifies the profound shift that had taken place in the religious discourse on gender. The period was shaped by the feminization of religion, which...
Folding Chair Family and family relations This early 20th century folding chair used for attending mass bears witness to the extension of the domestic role of women to the public sphere in the early 1900s, when women had begun to participate in social activism while...
Farm scene Gender and social class Motherhood Family and relationships The attributes of motherhood in female representations have been found since ancient times in examples such as the so-called Venus figurines of the Palaeolithic Age, the images of breastfeeding...
Cut-throat razor with box Gender and life cycle: marriage Family and relationships Gender roles Until well into the 20th century, the cut-throat razor was a grooming item that was used, among other things, to enable men to attend the dances held in the town square...
