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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.
Detail of the painting The Procuress (c. 1656), proposed self portrait by Vermeer [1] The following is a list of paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), a Dutch Golden Age painter. After two or three early history paintings, he concentrated almost entirely on genre works, typically interiors with one or two figures. Vermeer's paintings of ...
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 Desert; Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Velázquez) Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Vermeer) Christ on the Mount of Olives (Caravaggio) Christ on the Mount of Olives (Paul Gauguin) Christ Pantocrator (Palladas) Christ Pantocrator (Sinai) Christ Taking Leave of his Mother (El Greco) Christ the Redeemer (icon)
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]
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Departing from Ripa's allusion to the story of Abraham and Isaac (an Old Testament story said to prefigure the faithful sacrifice of Christ on the Cross), Vermeer instead uses an image of the Crucifixion itself — an image dear to the Jesuits. Vermeer used Crucifixion, a painting from about 1620 by Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678).
After Vermeer's Christ in the House of Martha and Mary and The Procuress it is his largest work. This illusionistic painting is one of Vermeer's most famous. In 1868 Thoré-Bürger, known today for his rediscovery of the work of painter Johannes Vermeer, regarded this painting as his most interesting.