Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies Manuscripts The magi were revered as

The magi were revered as wise men and later as kings

This ornament is a wonderful decorative item for all year

and certainly deeply felt

and delights

This notecard depicts an entertaining scene in a lawyers office by Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)

Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies Manuscripts The magi were revered asArt historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monsterwomen have been bound so long by these restrictive roles, codified by patriarchal culture, that we scarcely see them. Catherine McCormack illuminates the assumptions behind these stereotypes whether writ large or subtly hidden. She ranges through Western artthink Titian, Botticelli, and