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Comunicar Journal 24: Media Education (Vol. 12 - 2005)

Childhood image: iconographyc aspects

https://doi.org/10.3916/C24-2005-19

María-del-Mar Ramírez-Alvarado

Abstract

This paper analyses the evolution of childhood image throughout History from the most ancient times, when realistic representation of specific infant features is practically non existent in –or irrelevant to- many cultures. Children´s image, with all its specific characteristics according to each historical period, turns into a major theme in a whole body of religious and secular iconography which grants them a leading role.

Keywords

Image, iconography, iconology, representation, infancy, childhood