Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Seated Statue of Hatshepsut

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Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints: Seated Statue of Hatshepsut Women over the past centuries, has have been viewed and looked upon based on their importance in our society. For example, in the last election Mrs. Hillary Clinton was running for the presidential election in the year 2008 as a candidate in the Democratic primary race. . She was a primary candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination in that year. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines gender roles as "socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women." Gender roles play a major part in today’s society, and women are beginning to become more valuable and appreciated all over the globe. Gender roles is are seen as a way or a method which one can express their self-identity. Such roles are typically dictated by different social aspects such as religious mandates and structures of hegemony. These roles might likewise be applied as a way as a method of for applying public control, but sometimes people might view it as abusing their power which is false. In the beginning, women didn’t have enough power in the society but later on that has absolutely changed. Madonna and child Enthroned with saints has proven or shown how people during the 1505 viewed women in the society through the lens of this creative master piece. “This altarpiece was painted by Raphael around 1504 for the small Franciscan convent of Sant’ Antonio in Perugia. It hung in a part of the church reserved for the nuns, who are thought to have insisted on some of its conservative features, such as the elaborately clothed Christ Child” . Throughout the history of art, there are many examples of women who fall in line with these traditional gender roles—visibly apparent in the “Virgin and Child in Majesty,” (fig. 1) made from

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