EditorialBath for a newborn baby, Urbino, Italy. Decorated with sea creatures, heads and foliage. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquot's General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l'Auteur, Paris, 1874.
EditorialMuhammad (c. 570-632), newborn on his mother's arms, shows to his grandfather Abd al-Muttalib and other inhabitants of Mecca. Miniature. Topkapi Museum. Istanbul. Turkey.
EditorialLe cattive madri-The Bad Mothers. According to an Indian legend, mothers who killed their newborn children must hang, frozen, in trees in a snowy landscape and nurse their dead children. Oil on canvas, 105 x 200 cm Inv. MG 269.
Editorial" The Star of the Kings", a Dutch custom to celebrate the Feast of Epiphany (January 6th), commemorating the visit of the Three Kings or Magi to the newborn Christ. Children went from door to door with a lantern shaped like a star, sang and a...
EditorialAmulet for protection of mother and newborn child, from Southern Germany, late 19th. The letters are all in black, except for the words " God destroy satan", which stand out in red ink. Paper cutout of natural coloured paper on black backgrou...
EditorialDeath of the Virgin (dormition), from the apse of Gracanica Church. While Saint Mary lies on her deathbed, Christ lifts up her soul in the form of a newborn child.