There are numerous scenes depicting motherhood at the GAM. In the various representations, pictorial or sculptural, symbols of motherhood appear in its profound essence.
An example are the sculptures by Ettore Ximenes Ecce mater and Antonio Ugo The mother: they don’t wear French fashion clothes, no refined hairstyles, but soft and welcoming bodies, sweet and devoted expressions, a hymn to the tenderness of motherhood.
Or again, the broad-shouldered mother with large hands protecting her child becomes the expression of a universal sentiment that motherhood expresses in the work of Elisa Maria Boglino Woman and Child. Here the gaze of a woman observing another woman gives voice to the great changes that the twentieth century will bring to the history of gender.