#women in history
Très riches heures du Duc de Berry-manuscripts(18/?)
This manuscript dates back from 1412-1416. The imagine is the “Labours of the month June” and shows women reaping the harvest, beside the Hotel de Nesle (Parisian residence of the Duke). (x)
I just love medieval images of women, living their day to day life. It makes me feel connected to previous generations of women.
“From the first human handprint on a cave wall, we’re part of something continuous.” (The Dig)
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
(Beloved, 1987)
Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019) - women in history(40/?)
Toni Morrison was an American writer who was known for her examination of Black experience (particularly Black female experience). She won the Nobel prize for literature in 1993.
Toni published her first book, The Bluest Eyes, in 1970 in which she talks about a black girl who is obsessed with white beauty standards. In 1973, her book Sulafollowed.Song of Solomon came out in 1977; in this book, Toni intruduces her first male protagonist and she blends African American folklore and history in a book about the search for identity. Ten years later the critically acclaimed Belovedcame out. In this work, Toni tells a story, based on true events, of a runaway slave who, at the point of recapture, kills her infant daughter in order to spare her a life of slavery. This book won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Toni wrote many other books, in which she talked about many aspects, important to the black community, such as a Black utopian community (Paradise, 1998).
What is always central in the works of Toni Morrison is the Black American experience: her characters struggle to find themselves and their cultural identity in an unjust society.
Sweet is the trust that springs from hope, without which we could not endure life’s many and almost unbearable adversities
Spes(Hope) - Brueghel(around 1560)
This gravure was designed by Pieter Brueghel the Elder and engraved by Philips Galle. It was published by Hieronymus Cock.
On the bottom it reads: “Iucundissima est spei persuasio, et vitae imprimis necessaria, inter tot aerumnas peneq(ue) intolerabilis.”
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