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Christ taking leave of his Mother is a subject in Christian art, most commonly (although not exclusively) found in Northern European art of the 15th and 16th centuries. Christ says farewell to his mother Mary , often blessing her, before leaving for his final journey to Jerusalem , which he knows will lead to his Passion and death; indeed this ...
In the central part, Jesus is blessing his Mother. The gesture of his hand is to calm the rest of the women who mourn over the coming events. Among the women, apart from the fainting Mary, dressed in a navy blue robe, are Mary, mother of James embracing her, a kneeling Mary Magdalen , Mary of Clopas and Mary Salome .
Jesus saying farewell to his eleven remaining disciples, from the Maesta by Duccio, 1308–1311. In the New Testament, chapters 14–17 of the Gospel of John are known as the Farewell Discourse given by Jesus to eleven of his disciples immediately after the conclusion of the Last Supper in Jerusalem, the night before his crucifixion.
John 19:26-27 "When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, 'Woman, here is your son.' Then he said to the disciple, 'Here is your mother.'
John 17:1–26 is generally known as the Farewell Prayer or the High Priestly Prayer, given that it is an intercession for the coming Church. [60] The prayer begins with Jesus's petition for his glorification by the Father, given that completion of his work and continues to an intercession for the success of the works of his disciples and the ...
The Roman soldiers did not break Jesus' legs, as they did to the other two men crucified (breaking the legs hastened the crucifixion process), as Jesus was dead already; this further fulfilled prophecy, as noted in John 19:36, "For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken."
Christ Taking Leave of his Mother is a 1595 oil on canvas painting by a Greek artist Theotokopoulos Domenikos, better known as El Greco. [1] The painting represents the first depiction of the subject by the artist. [2] Christ taking leave of his Mother was a subject more often found in Northern Renaissance art, and earlier in the century.
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