Though many early modern women spent much of their lives in a state of pregnancy, their pregnancies are seldom made apparent in surviving portraits.
Over a span of more than five hundred years, art historian Karen Hearn looks at representations of pregnancy through the ages a.
Comprising material from the fifteenth century to the present day, Portraying Pregnancy considers the different ways in which a sitter\'s pregnancy was, or was not, visibly represented to the viewer.
Though many early modern women spent much of their lives in a state of pregnancy, their pregnancies are seldom made apparent in surviving portraits