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Pictorial representations of the Jesse Tree show a symbolic tree or vine with spreading branches to represent the genealogy in accordance with Isaiah's prophecy. The 12th-century monk Hervaeus expressed the medieval understanding of the image, based on the Vulgate text: "The patriarch Jesse belonged to the royal family, that is why the root of Jesse signifies the lineage of kings.
The artistic depictions of the Nativity or birth of Jesus, celebrated at Christmas, are based on the narratives in the Bible, in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and further elaborated by written, oral and artistic tradition. Christian art includes a great many representations of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child.
Roger-Quilliot Art Museum, Clermont-Ferrand. The Acrobats (or The Wounded Child) is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1874 by French artist Gustave Doré. It represents a family of acrobats, who work in a circus, struck by a tragedy: their son, mortally wounded in the head, lies in the arms of his mother after an accident during a tightrope ...
INV 776. The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is an unfinished oil painting by High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1501–1519. [n 1] It depicts Saint Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. [1] Christ is shown grappling with a sacrificial lamb symbolizing his Passion as the Virgin tries to restrain him.
Dimensions. 141.5 cm × 104.6 cm (55.7 in × 41.2 in) Location. National Gallery, London. The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist, sometimes called the Burlington House Cartoon, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. The drawing is in charcoal and black and white chalk, on eight sheets of paper that are glued together.
Christ in the House of His Parents. The Holy Family (Collinson painting) Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist (Correggio, Mantua) Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Correggio, Los Angeles) Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Correggio, Orléans) The Holy Family with Saint Jerome.
The painting depicts an enslaved black child, believed to be aged around 10 years old. [1] He wears a silver collar with padlock around his neck. [1] The child is thought to have been enslaved in Africa and would have worked as a pageboy in one of the wealthy households of the primary sitters of the portrait. [1]
The Virgin and Child with a Cat is an etching made in 1654 by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669). The Victoria and Albert Museum has in its collection one of the earliest impressions of this etching and the actual copper plate from which the image is taken. This print shows a homely scene of maternal affection but it is also a ...