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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.
Jesus is in the hands of Mary seated and on the left appear Joseph, emerging from the shadows, and St. John, recognizable by the bowl with which he carried out the baptism. The intertwining of gestures and glances between the figures recalls the classical models of Raphael and the Florentine painters, combined with Beccafumi's very particular ...
John the Baptist (sometimes called John in the Wilderness) was the subject of at least eight paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). The story of John the Baptist is told in the Gospels. John was the cousin of Jesus, and his calling was to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah.
21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in the spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. 22 The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. 23 There was at the table reclining in Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
There are seven figures in the painting: from left to right they are John, Jesus, Judas, three soldiers (the one farthest to the right barely visible in the rear), and a man holding a lantern to the scene. They are standing, and only the upper three-quarters of their bodies are depicted. Judas has just kissed Jesus to identify him for the ...
Scientists have re-created what they believe Jesus looked like, and he's not the figure we're used to seeing in many religious images. Forensic science reveals how Jesus really looked Skip to main ...
Many Christians believe this image to be the Holy Face of Jesus. There are, however, some images which have been claimed to realistically show how Jesus looked. One early tradition, recorded by Eusebius of Caesarea, says that Jesus once washed his face with water and then dried it with a cloth, leaving an image of his face imprinted on the cloth.
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]