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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 .
It is the largest painting by Vermeer and one of the very few with an overt religious subject. The story of Christ visiting the household of the two sisters Mary of Bethany and Martha goes back to the New Testament. [1] The work has also been called Christ in the House of Mary and Martha (reversing the last two names). [2]
The painting illustrates Luke 10, verses 38–42 in the Bible, when Christ ate at the table of the sisters Martha and Mary. [2] In the scripture, Martha is doing all the work to serve as hostess to Jesus, while her sister sat with him. [2] She reproved Mary for sitting while she did all the work. [2]
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]
Ivanov's painting "Christ's Appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection" (lithograph, 1862) The painting, entitled Christ's Appearance to Mary Magdalene, was completed in December 1835 and exhibited in the artist's studio. One of the visitors was the writer Alexei Timofeev, who offered the following commentary on the painting: "‘The ...
Mary (our hero) is on a quest to deliver a sacred gift (Jesus) to the temple while Herod and the Romans try to stop her. It is exciting and emotional. This interview has been edited for clarity ...
"Mary" director D.J. Caruso spoke to Fox News Digital about his new Biblical epic on Netflix and why he wanted to retell the Nativity story from Mary's view.
Death of the Virgin, Assumption of the Virgin Mary in art, Coronation of the Virgin although doctrine avoids stating whether Mary was alive or dead when she was bodily taken up to Heaven, she is normally shown in art as alive. Depicting the Coronation of Mary as Queen of the Heavens by her son, Jesus Christ, sometimes combined with the ...