Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fight is, to some minds, attractive and convincing. But it is specious. It has its origin in the school of pessimism--the Schopenhauerian pessimism which fears contact with the realities of life. It springs from that same suicidal philosophy which leads men to avoid marriage and women to shirk motherhood. The artist who sacrificed himself belongs to a nobler--and commoner--humanity. --London Daily Mail...
...with a deep, almost tragic spirit, reminding us of the greatest Madonna conceptions by Donatello. It is quite conceivable that Fra Filippo was influenced to a certain extent by Donatello, and he has in this picture reached a deeper and more sublime interpretation of the broad formula of human motherhood...