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It depicts the Cleansing of the Temple, an event in the Life of Christ. There exist three other copies of the painting and also a faithful reproduction in the National Gallery in London , which has recently been considered as authentic by scholars in the field of visual arts. [ 2 ]
Pages in category "Paintings of the Presentation of Christ at the Temple" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (1854–1860) is a painting by the English artist William Holman Hunt intended as an ethnographically accurate version of the subject traditionally known as "Christ Among the Doctors", an illustration of the child Jesus debating the interpretation of the scripture with learned rabbis.
The episode of the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple is taken from the Gospel of Luke (Lk 2.42-50), and is often depicted in Christian art, for example in cycles on the life of Mary. Liebermann had the idea for this painting when he visited the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam in 1876.
Two versions and that other on loan from Madrid are titled Purification of the Temple. The one at the National Gallery in Washington is called Christ Cleansing the Temple. The painting which bears this actual title belongs to the Minneapolis Institute of Art and it is somewhat different from all the other versions of this legendary Christian ...
Three of his paintings were purchased by John D. Rockefeller Jr.: the 1882 studio copy of Christ in the Tempel (1881), Christ and the Young Rich Man (1889), and Christ in Gethsemane (1890). These now are displayed at the Riverside Church in New York City. Scene from the Life of Alboin, King of the Langobards, 1845
Christian art includes a great many representations of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child. Such works are generally referred to as the " Madonna and Child " or "Virgin and Child". They are not usually representations of the Nativity specifically, but are often devotional objects representing a particular aspect or attribute of the Virgin Mary ...
The life of Christ as a narrative cycle in Christian art comprises a number of different subjects showing events from the life of Jesus on Earth. They are distinguished from the many other subjects in art showing the eternal life of Christ, such as Christ in Majesty , and also many types of portrait or devotional subjects without a narrative ...