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The Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük (also Çatal Höyük) is a baked-clay, nude female form seated between feline-headed arm-rests. It is generally thought [ 2 ] to depict a corpulent and fertile Mother goddess [ 3 ] in the process of giving birth while seated on her throne, which has two hand rests in the form of feline (lioness, leopard, or ...
English: Statue of a seated goddess, Bau (Nintinugga), from the Ningal Complex (Giparu, also called E-gig-par, or gig-par-ku) at the city of Ur, Iraq. Isin-Larsa period, c. 1800 BCE. Black diorite. Bau was the consort of the god Ninurta and the goddess of healing. On display the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq. U 6779B, IM 18663.
Seated Woman: Artist Henri Matisse: Year 1908 Creation location Hermitage Museum: Type Oil on canvas Height 80.5 Width 53 Depth Units cm City Museum/Gallery Source Hermitage Museum: Permission {{{permission}}} Other notes
An 18th-century painting from Rajasthan depicts Chhinnamasta as black, as described in the Pranatoshini Tantra legend. She is seated on a copulating couple. Chhinnamasta is often named as the fifth [24] [25] [26] or sixth [1] [27] [20] Mahavidya (Mahavidyas are a group of ten fearsome goddesses from the Hindu esoteric tradition of Tantra), with hymns identifying her as a fierce aspect of Devi ...
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The idea of depicting the Mother of God with her own mother was therefore particularly close to Leonardo's heart, because he, in a sense, had "two mothers" himself. In both versions of the composition (the Louvre painting and the London cartoon) it is hard to discern whether Saint Anne is a full generation older than Mary.