Dresden Venus. Giorgione

Winter, Jean Antonie Houdon

Hajime Sorayama

The Venus of Urbino. Titian.

Either its a portrait of Angela Zaffetta, a leading courtesan in Venice, made for the pleasure of 21-year-old Ippolito de Medici (reluctantly made a cardinal by the Pope his uncle (but not priest)), after he spent just one night with the courtesan.

Or it was commissioned by Guidobaldo II de la Rovere, the 24-year-old son of the Duke of Urbino, to celebrate his marriage in 1534 to the 10-year-old Giulia Varano, which made him  Duke of Camerino, or its consummation, which was probably a few years later.

You can chose one, but anyway Venus was there….

Mothers love eternal

A 7000-6000 year old burial of a young woman (aged around 20 at the time of her death) and her newborn baby from Vedbaek, Denmark. By her head, 200 red deer teeth and a bone hairpin, as well as red deer hooves which came from a skin that was wrapped around her. The child is cradled in the wing of a swan with 2 flint knives at its hip, suggesting the baby was a boy. It’s thought the pair died together in childbirth.

The mother of a Spanish volunteer killed in German invasion of Rusia, 1942

Lets say hair is unimportant.

Death Mounted on a Lion' (1513 CE), Middle Franconia,

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Lot y sus hijas

Eso es libertad