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  Childhood innocence in art 13 May 2005  
In the seventeenth century, children were portrayed in art as small adults, but in the eighteenth century a new category of childhood began to emerge

Art began to represent the domestic sphere - where parents spend time with their family and children were free to play.

How do we represent children now?  And how does their portrayal in art compare with images of children in the media and the wider culture?

Do we still think that children are naturally innocent, or are we beginning to regard them, instead, as unruly and even evil?



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