Mother and Child Sculpture in Stone Speaks Volumes

The theme for this Thursday’s Challenge is Mother.

It will be a real challenge to any one who would try to define this word even in 1000 words let alone a picture. For me too, selecting just one picture to depict this powerful word was not easy.

from Florence in Italy

This one here, a Mother and Child Sculpture, is from my archives. This picture was taken in Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy. There is so much of emotion in the mother’s face, the joy of holding her child in her arms is so evident in her smile, it almost looked the statue would straighten herself soon gently swaying the child in her arms.

The time stood still and the emotion frozen in that frame. Hope you will like it.

Mother and Child Sculpture

Mother and Child Sculpture

from Mechelen in Belgium

Yet another sculpted image of a Mom and Child. These pictures were taken in Mechelen Belgium.

Sculpted image of Mother and Child

Sculptor of this statue was Ernest Wijnants (1878 – 1964). He came from a family of furniture makers. Mechelen boasts of several sculptures made by him in 1950.

Mother and Child is a popular painting by Jamini Roy. I attempted to make a copy of the painting. See here: Copy of Jamini Roy’s “Mother and Child”

Update:

Years later I got an opportunity to take pictures of full term pregnant mother and her child. Check here: Maternity Photo Shoot

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