Poster: "Death and Children"
Description:
Images of children dead or dying, or children as allegorical figures related to death
Items:
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Title: "Sleeping child with hourglass and four skulls, by Beham (1512, c.)"
Url: http://deathandgender.celpyc.org/items/show/34"
Child in the tradition of a Cherub, Cupid or Baby Jesus and the skull
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Title: "Death next to a little girl, by Borch, (1656, c.)"
Url: http://deathandgender.celpyc.org/items/show/36"
Death as a playing companion? As a maternal figure?
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Title: "Death and two children, by Lochom (1628)"
Url: http://deathandgender.celpyc.org/items/show/120"
One of the children may e a realistic figure while the other an allegorial figure, maybe a represenation of the soul.
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Title: "Two newborn children, by Bauhin (1605)"
Url: http://deathandgender.celpyc.org/items/show/113"
Anatomical display in which the children or fetuses are presented as brothers in dead. Relation beyond death.
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Title: "Souls of Children in Limbo, by Renaissance painter (1397, c.)"
Url: http://deathandgender.celpyc.org/items/show/90"
Children allegorically as the soul and literally as children since they died before adulthood
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