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Bergen is a lively, historic city located on the west coast of Norway. Known for its history as a Hanseatic trading town of fish from the north, Bergen has much to offer those who visit. The most famous site is the colorful "Bryggen" or German...

Selja monastery has been considered one of the most sacred sites in Norway for more than 1000 years. The monastery is connected to the legend of St. Sunniva (10th century CE), who is the only female Norwegian saint, and was for a long time...

An 1860 oil on canvas, Portrait of Renoir's Mother, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. An unfinished work showing the artist's mother Marguerite when she was 53 years old. It is an unusually honest portrait...

A c. 1890 pastel on paper, Mother and Child, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. Here the artist captures the tender hold of the mother and inattention of the child in a bold use of pastel. (Pushkin Museum, Moscow...

A detail of an illustration from a 14th Century CE manuscript of Roman de Brut, a legendary history of Britain by the Norman poet Wace (c. 1110 - c. 1170 CE). The young Merlin is depicted, alongside his mother, approaching King Vortigern...

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

Neolithic clay altar figurine of a mother goddess from Tumba Madzari, North Macedonia, the second half of the 6th millennium BCE. Archaeological Museum of the Republic of Macedonia, Skopje. Tumba Madzari (lit. hill of the tomb) is a Neolithic...

The cobras on Tasherenese's headdress and forehead signal a royal status, and her fly-whisk was typical of queens. She was, however, not a queen. An inscription on the back-pillar identifies her as the mother of King Amasis, who started out...

Mother and the dog: A mother is breastfeeding her baby. The scene is a representation of Isis with her child Horus. A dog on the left of the woman is looking at her with its raised head. Period: Early Byzantine, circa 6th. century CE. Place...

Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi brothers, oil on canvas by Umberto Ruini, 1892. Civic Museum of Modena.