From an unconventional depiction of maternal holiness to weird, festive murder-thrillers, our critics select culture for coping with the clan
Return of the Maccabee … Orlando Weeks.As leader of 2010s indie outfit the Maccabees, Orlando Weeks’s trembly, distinctive vocals marked him out as an unusually tender frontman. His 2020 solo debut A Quickening wears this sentimentality even more proudly, immortalising the joys and nerves of first-time parenthood. Set to atmospheric piano, sleepless nights collide with twinkling milestones, all giddy and endearing in its love for this new family unit.
Leonardo da Vinci’s vision of family life is fatherless and feminist. It was common to give Joseph a humble role in Renaissance paintings of the holy family but in The Burlington House Cartoon, this unfinished work Leonardo goes further and eradicates him completely. He creates a female-run setup with Mary and her mother, Anne. The boys are also in an unusual family grouping for the infant John the Baptist is shown with baby Jesus, like a brother. The subversive imagery did this design no harm.
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