There are countless images celebrating motherhood from just about anything by Mary Cassatt to those adorable polar bear cubs snuggling with Momma Bear.
Here’s my nomination for an image that says it all (or at least a lot of it): Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne.” Painted in the early 1500s, it hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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