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The Finding in the Temple, also called (particularly in art) Christ among the Doctors, the Disputation in the Temple, or variations of those names, is an episode in the early life of Jesus as depicted in the Gospel of Luke . [1] It is the only event of the later childhood of Jesus mentioned in a canonical gospel. [2]
The episode of the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple is taken from the Gospel of Luke (Lk 2.42-50), and is often depicted in Christian art, for example in cycles on the life of Mary. Liebermann had the idea for this painting when he visited the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam in 1876.
Christ Among the Doctors is a painting in oils on canvas by Paolo Veronese, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Its dating has been the subject of debate – the date 1548 appears on a book held by a figure seated on the stairs in the foreground, but in 1976 Diana Gisolfi Pechukas posited 1565 as the earliest possible date for the painting's production.
The narrative occurs near the end of the Synoptic Gospels (at Matthew 21:12–17, [1] Mark 11:15–19, [2] and Luke 19:45–48 [3]) and near the start of the Gospel of John (at John 2:13–16). [4] Some scholars believe that these refer to two separate incidents, given that the Gospel of John also includes more than one Passover .
Meeting of the Lord, Russian Orthodox icon, 15th century. The event is described in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 2:22–40).According to the gospel, Mary and Joseph took the Infant Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem forty days (inclusive) after his birth to complete Mary's ritual purification after childbirth, and to perform the redemption of the firstborn son, in obedience to the Torah (Leviticus ...
The Church and convent of the Society of Jesus in Antigua Guatemala is a religious complex that was built between 1690 and 1698. It was built on a block that is only 325 yards (300 m) away from the Cathedral of Saint James on a lot that once belonged to the family of famous chronicler Bernal Díaz del Castillo and had three monastery wings and ...
This category is for specific works that include depictions of Jesus in the visual arts. For articles covering ways of depicting scenes or types of depictions of Jesus in general, see the sub-category Category:Iconography of Jesus. For images of Jesus as an infant with his mother, see Category:Madonna and Child in art.
Incised sarcophagus slab with the Adoration of the Magi from the Catacombs of Rome, 3rd century.Plaster cast with added colour. Except for Jesus wearing tzitzit—the tassels on a tallit—in Matthew 14:36 [9] and Luke 8:43–44, [10] there is no physical description of Jesus contained in any of the canonical Gospels.