Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 4312
Author(s): Gibson, Gail McMurray
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Title : Scene and Obscene: Seeing and Performing Late Medieval Childbirth

Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 29., 1 (Winter 1999): Pages 7 - 24.
Year of Publication: 1999.

2. Record Number: 6503
Author(s): Musacchio, Jacqueline Marie.
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Title : The Medici-Tornabuoni "Desco da Parto" in Context [the author argues that the large and elaborately painted birth tray now in the Metropolitan Museum was given by Piero de Medici to his wife Lucrezia Tornabuoni on the birth of their son, Lorenzo de Medici; the author explores the production and use of birth trays in the celebration of childbirth in post-plague Italy].

Source: Metropolitan Museum Journal , 33., ( 1998): Pages 137 - 151.
Year of Publication: 1998.

3. Record Number: 3668
Author(s): Musacchio, Jacqueline Marie.
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Title : Imaginative Conceptions in Renaissance Italy [The author argues that women were encouraged to fulfill their maternal role through a wide variety of images and objects that emphasized the delivery of healthy, male babies].

Source: Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. Edited by Geraldine A. Johnson and Sara F. Mathews Grieco . Cambridge University Press, 1997. Metropolitan Museum Journal , 33., ( 1998): Pages 42 - 60.
Year of Publication: 1997.

4. Record Number: 16623
Author(s): Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane
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Title : Les femmes dans les rituels de l'alliance et de la naissance à Florence [Christiane Klapisch-Zuber explores Florentine women's roles in rituals celebrating marriage and childbirth. She looks in particular at the meanings of "cassoni" (wedding chests) and "deschi da parto" (painted plates associated with the birth of children). She frequently finds situations in which the needs of the patrilineage and family honor trump the concerns of wives, mothers, and their natal families. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Riti e rituali nelle società medievali. Edited by Jacques Chiffoleau, Lauro Martines, and Agostino Paravicini Bagliani . Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 1994. Metropolitan Museum Journal , 33., ( 1998): Pages 3 - 22.
Year of Publication: 1994.

5. Record Number: 28816
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Title : Desco da parto [birth tray]: Birthing Chamber Scene (obverse view)

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6. Record Number: 28956
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Title : Desco da parto [Birth tray] depicting The Triumph of Love

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7. Record Number: 43215
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Title : The Triumph of Venus, with six legendary lovers

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