Talk // The Courtauld, Vernon Square
A Matrilineal Descent: Racial Inheritances in Victorian Paintings of Mothers and Their Children
✨ AI-written summary:Lecture on race and inheritance in Victorian mother-and-child paintings
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- –19:30Starts
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- Venue
- The Courtauld, Vernon SquareVernon Square, Penton Rise, London WC1X 9EW
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Reads Victorian paintings of mothers and children against the period's biology and anthropology, tracing how ideas of race and inheritance shaped these images.
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Join the Manton Centre for a lecture from Keren Hammerschlag: A Matrilineal Descent: Racial Inheritances in Victorian Paintings of Mothers and Their Children Babies and children were a preoccupation among Victorian artists, biologists and anthropologists concerned with the infancy of humanity and…
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- Talk
- Tags
- art, art history
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- a deep dive
- Event page
- https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/a-matrilineal-descent-racial-inheritances-in-victorian-paintings-of-mothers-and-their-children/