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Arts: Famous paintings celebrate mother's love

Originally, Mother's Day was marked as a day on which the ancient Greeks paid their respects to the mother of all gods in Greece, Gaea. But the modern version traces its roots to the US in 1914, when Congress declared every second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. But long before there was Mother's Day, artists have been paying tributes to their mothers through their brushes. We take a look at images of mothers in great artworks.