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The tree of Jesse. While he is sleeping, a tree is growing from Jesse's body with on it the twelve Kings of Judah, the ancestors of Christ, and Mary with the Christ child in the top. The kings are: David, Solomon, Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah and Manasseh.
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.
Tree of Jesse is a tempera painting on gold leaf and wood panel. The height is 52 cm (20.4 in) and the width is 40.3 cm (15.9 in). The height is 52 cm (20.4 in) and the width is 40.3 cm (15.9 in). It is almost identical in size to Victor's Christ the Vine which was completed the same year.
The Tree of Jesse (Stump of Jesse, Root of Jesse) is a metaphor used in Isaiah. The writer above goes on to say that The idea of treating Christ's Genealogy under the semblance of a vine, arose most probably from the passage in the book of Isaiah 11:1-3, .
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