Nearly 300 years apart, Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1656) and French artist Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938) both used their perspectives as women to capture the power and complexity of the female...
![Against a dark black and brown background, a light skinned woman in a red dress with wavy reddish-brown hair wears a white cloth and gold crown around her head. Her right hand clutches a palm while her left grazes a spiked breaking wheel. She stares straight at the viewer.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Artemisia-Self-Portrait-as-Saint-Catherine-of-Alexandria-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Blood and Milk, Science and Culture: The Virgin as a Nursing Mother
Posted: February 4, 2015
Category: Madonna And Child
The figure of the Virgin Mary has been used in art as an ideal woman, poetic beauty, and perfect mother. An example within Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea of the Virgin...
![View of a gallery space with blue walls. On the left is a painting of a woman in a dark blue dress in a golden frame. Next to it is a red cloth framed in glass.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Picturing-Mary-Exhibition_07_15999-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)