Mother and Child in Art History

Since it’s Mother’s Day, I thought I would share with you a few of the many awesome pieces of art surrounding the subject of mother and child…and I won’t even make you read a lot! You're welcome.

I hope all of you mamas, step mamas, fur-baby mamas, adopted mamas, and single dads have the best day!

Mother and Child – Neolithic Sesklo Culture, 4000 BCE

Statuette of Isis and Horus – Ptolemaic Period, ca. 304-30 BCE

Krishna’s Foster-Mother Yashoda with the 

Infant Krishna, Chola period, early 12^th Century

Madonna and Child (ca. 1295-1300), Duccio di Buoninsegna

Madonna Litta (1450), Leonardo da Vinci

Madonna with the Long Neck (1534), Parmigianino

Midnight: The Hours of the Rat; Mother and Sleepy Child (1790), Kitagawa Utamaro

Mother Roulin with Her Baby (1888), Vincent van Gogh

Mother and Child (1890), Mary Cassatt

Mother and Child (1893), Edmund C. Tarbell

Mother and Child (1905), Gustav Klimt

Motherhood Angelina Child (1916), Diego Rivera

Mother and Child (1921), Pablo Picasso

Mother and Child (1931), Tamara Lempicka

Mother Holding Baby (1986), Keith Haring

Baby & Mother (2007), Diana Ong

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