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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]
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]
Typically, Mary, the elder sister, is preparing or serving food, while Martha is listening to Christ. However, it appears in some Ottonian cycles of the Life of Christ. Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, a 1618 oil-on-canvas painting by the Spanish painter Velázquez. Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, a 1655 painting by Johannes Vermeer.
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From the Carnegie Museum of Art: "Henry Ossawa Tanner Christ at the Home of Mary and Martha Artist Henry Ossawa Tanner American1859–1937 Date c. 1905 Classification Paintings Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Work51 ½ × 41 ½ in130.81 × 105.41 cm Frame65 × 54 ½ × 3 ½ in165.10 × 138.43 × 8.89 cm Accession No. 07.3 Location Scaife Gallery 5
"The Sons of Martha" was written in 1907 and was adopted by the author in 1922 to be part of the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer performed by Canadian engineers at their graduation. In the Bible story, Christ visits a home where two sisters, Mary and Martha, live. Mary sits at the visitor's feet to listen to him while Martha races about ...
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