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Jesus has cut his hand on an exposed nail, symbolizing the stigmata and foreshadowing Jesus's crucifixion. Some of the blood has fallen onto his foot. As Jesus's grandmother, Anne, removes the nail with a pair of pincers, his concerned mother, Mary, offers her cheek for a kiss. Joseph examines Jesus's wounded hand.
The piece depicts the nominal "adoration of the Holy Name of Jesus. Beside Philip II are Pope Pius V and doge Sebastiano Venier, founders of the Holy League, and Don John of Austria, victor of the battle of Lepanto, all kneeling and worshipping the Holy Name of Jesus in the upper register, where it is surrounded by angels.
Jesus holds a small book and raises an arm that shows a muscularity that is entirely inspired by Michelangelo. The elderly St. Joseph and St. John appear from the back. The typical characteristics of Beccafumi's art can be recognized in the sweetness of the shades, the light effects, the various and characterized physiognomies, and the ...
Holy Family. Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist is a fragment of fresco from the Basilica of Sant'Andrea, Mantua, now held in Mantua's Diocesan Museum.It was painted ca. 1509–1511 by the Italian Renaissance painter Correggio and is 1.5m in diameter. [1]
Jesus hands Judas the sop, Tilman Riemenschneider, Holy Blood Altar, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, 1501–05. The first episode, much the most common in Western Medieval art, [13] is the dramatic and dynamic moment of Jesus' announcement of his betrayal.
The painting depicts the Holy Family together with the Infant John the Baptist. Mary and Joseph form the curved borders of the painting, surrounding baby Jesus and John the Baptist. The Christ Child is most likely the figure embracing the lamb, as a reference to him being the Lamb of God .
The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and an Angel is one of Sodoma's multiple variations on the extended theme (Holy Family, Holy Family with John the Baptist, Holy Family with John the Baptist and an angel), and quite characteristic for his style. One original aspect of the Strasbourg version is the unusual posture of the (rather ...
Against a neutral background, interrupted only by the edge of a wall, Mary, on the right, offers her sleeping son to the homage of a saint in the foreground, dressed like a princess and holding the palm of martyrdom, and of Saint John, who kisses the child's foot while St. Joseph bends over him with a paternal gesture, placing a hand on his shoulder.