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Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabee Brothers and Their Mother, stained glass by Dirck Vellert, Antwerp, c. 1530-35. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This limestone statue was made by Huastec people. Those were Mayan Indians who lived in ancient Mexico. After their conquest by Aztecs about 1450 CE, the Huastec mother goddess merged to some degree with Tiazolteoti...

A bronze statue of an Etruscan mother and child in typical dress. 500-450 BCE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Beatrice, mother of Matilda of Tuscany (c. 1046-1115) as depicted in the Vita Mathildis by Donizo, 1115. Ms. Vat. lat. 4922, fol. 30. Vatican Library.

Limestone statue of the seated figure of priest Neje and Mutnefret, his mother. From modern-day Egypt. New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, 13th and 12 centuries BCE. (State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany).

An 1890 oil on canvas, Young Mother Sewing, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Statue depicting a Mother Goddess sitting in a backed chair with fruit in her lap and accompanied by two other women and a dog, 1st century CE. From the ancient site of Nasium, Musée Barrois, Bar-le-Duc, France.

Tiye (also known as Tiy, 1398-1338 BCE) was a queen of Egypt of the 18th dynasty, wife of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaten, and grandmother of both Tutankhamun and Ankhsenamun. She exerted an enormous influence at the courts...

The play Libation Bearers was written by one of the greatest of all Greek tragedians Aeschylus (c. 525-455 BCE). Winning first prize at the Dionysia competition in 458 BCE, Libation Bearers was the second play in the trilogy The...

Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536 CE) was a Spanish princess who famously became the Queen of England and the first wife of Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE). When the marriage did not produce a male heir, Henry VIII became...