During the lecture, we finished the section on women in the Renaissance. Because of this, we discussed many paintings and portraits that featured and highlighted women, but what stood out to me the most in this lecture were the little dolls of Christ that were mentioned near the end. This was because these dolls were meant for nuns that lived almost separately from the male dominated society. These little dolls of Jesus Christ were usually given to nuns when they took their vows. This was because nuns are unable to have children due to the value they place on chastity but it is because of this that they take on the role of being like a mother of baby Jesus. These dolls served as a way to do this and they were actually encouraged to play with the baby Jesus dolls to further portray and take on this role. They would dress their dolls up and some even chose to place them in cribs as ways of showing their devotion to Christ.