Tag: art history

• 17th century Pregnancy Test

  

  Urine is a used for pregnancy tests now… and in 17th century Europe.

  Aradia Wyndham

  January 15, 2020

  Pregnancy

  alchemy, art history, birth figures, doctors, Dutch, early modern, flask, painting, piskijker, Pregnancy, pregnancy test, quackery, scrying, urinalysis, virginity

• Scribonia Attice, Ancient Roman Midwife

  

  Scribonia Attice was a midwife in ancient Rome; a well-respected professional who considered herself the equal of her husband, a surgeon.

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 2, 2019

  Birth, Video

  ancient history, ancient rome, art history, Birth, history, history of medicine, home birth, Italy, latin, midwife, midwifery, professional, sculpture, tomb

• Syrian Baby Carriers in Ancient Egypt

  

  An Egyptologist from 1904 considers the infant carriers found on a 3,500 year old tomb wall.

  Aradia Wyndham

  September 24, 2019

  Babies, Video

  18 dynasty, Ancient Egypt, anthropology, art history, asiatics, babywearing, back carry, Egyptian, Egyptology, featured, linen bag, Max W Muller, Middle Kingdom, mothers, rosetta stone, slavery, syria, syrian, Theban Necropolis, Thebes, tribute

• The Boke of Chyldren | Tudor Pediatrics

  

  Imagine a world where there are no books about keeping your baby healthy in your language, even in your country: that was the case in England until Thomas Phaer published “The Boke of Chyldren” in 1544.

  Aradia Wyndham

  May 10, 2019

  Babies, Blog, Video

  16th century, art history, bedwetting, book history, breastfeeding, colic, cradle cap, domestic manual, early modern, England, epilepsy, history, humoral, infant care, infant sleep, literacy, magic, medicine, medieval, metaphysical, nightmares, religion, teething, The Boke of Chyldren, Thomas Phaer, Tudor

• Babywearing in Hogarth’s London

  

  Let’s talk about the baby carriers in William Hogarth’s painting, “March of the Guards to Finchley” on display at the Foundling Museum in London.

  Aradia Wyndham

  November 12, 2017

  Babies, Blog

  18th century, art history, babywearing, featured, foster care, foster children, Foundling Museum, foundlings, illegitimate children, infant carriers, London, March of the Guards to Finchley, William Hogarth

• Medieval Babywearing | European Infant Carriers

  

  With the talk of which culture has the exclusive rights to this or that, some have wondered if people of European descent should use infant carriers at all. To which I can only groan (and share this post).

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 27, 2015

  Babies

  art history, babywearing, baskets, beggars, Belgium, Berne, Billedet Hedder, BNF, Bodleian, breastfeeding, carrying, cradle, cradle boards, England, europe, Flight into Egypt, France, Giotto di Bondone, Gypsies, hands free nursing, Hare, hip carry, horses, infant carrier, Italy, Jehan de Grise of Flanders, Jesus, Lucas Van Leyden, Maestro di Campli, middle ages, Morgan Library, Pontificial of Guillaume Durand, Poodles, religious iconography, Romance of Alexander, sling, socioeconomics, Speculum Historiale, Speizer Chronicle, spocs, St. Christopher, swaddling, Torture of Jewish Mothers, Twins, Voeux De Paon, Westminster Psalter, wraps