Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Dutch: Christus in het huis van Martha en Maria) is an oil painting finished in 1655 by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is now in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh. It is the largest painting by Vermeer and one of the very few with an overt religious subject.
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary [6] 1654–55 or c. 1654–56 [7] or c. 1655 [8] Oil on canvas, 160 × 142 cm National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh: Saint Praxedis [9] 1655 [3] Oil on canvas, 101.6 x 82.6 cm Kufu Company Inc., Tokyo On loan to the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo Diana and Her Companions [10] 1655–56 or c. 1653 ...
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary is an episode in the Gospel of Luke. It may also refer to: Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, a painting by Diego Velázquez; Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, a painting by Johannes Vermeer; Christ at the home of Mary and Martha, a painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary by Tintoretto, 1570s. Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary, in art usually called Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, and other variant names, is a Biblical episode in the life of Jesus in the New Testament which appears only in Luke's Gospel (Luke 10:38–42), immediately after the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37). [1]
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez, dating to his Seville period, now in the National Gallery, London. It was probably painted in 1618 (it is dated, but the "8" is "fragmentary" and uncertain), [ 1 ] shortly after he completed his apprenticeship with Pacheco .
The theme of a woman in a private, reflective moment would grow stronger in Vermeer's paintings as his career progressed. Nothing of the work's history before the mid-19th century is known, and the painting was not widely accepted as one of Vermeer's until the early 20th century, when its similarities with Mary and Martha were noticed. About ...
Some art historians believe that Vermeer used a device called a camera obscura to help him create the perspective in his painting. [6] Instead of using a mathematical formula or a vanishing point, Vermeer probably used this mechanical device to show him what the relative size of the people should be. A camera obscura is similar to a camera as ...
Pages in category "Religious paintings by Johannes Vermeer" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Vermeer) S.