genealogical chart

Try to follow the “abridged” genealogical chart provided by the museum, with its interlocking axes of descendance and intermarriage, and you may rediscover the mercies of the nuclear family.

She devised a genealogical chart that imagines the offspring of two artifacts, unearthed in what is now Germany, that have been dated to 35,000 to 40,000 years old: the “lion-human” and the “Venus of Hohle Fels.”

If Weber had read more than the genealogical chart and a footnote on Page 251, she would have seen that Marie Antoinette’s second son was almost certainly conceived during the week that the queen was at the Petit Trianon, planning and throwing a late-night party for the king of Sweden and his entourage, which included Count Fersen.

A genealogical chart is not supplied: The audience is tossed into the domestic scrum like a new spouse or a country cousin, to make sense of things as they happen.

Margot Neuhaus, whose work is usually spare, has added a genealogical chart to her swoops of pigment on paper.