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According to apocrypha, as well as Christian and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's canonical gospels .
Group showing Emerentia, Saint Anne, the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus Christ (anonymous, 1400–1600, Metropolitan Museum of Art) Emerentia is the name given for a grandmother of Mary, mother of Jesus, in some European traditions and art from the late 15th century. [1]
St. Anna Metterza, fresco by an anonymous artist in Oratorio di San Lorenzo all'alpe Seccio, Boccioleto, Vercelli, Italy, c. 1450.. The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne [1] [2] or Madonna and Child with Saint Anne [3] [4] is a subject in Christian art showing Saint Anne with her daughter, the Virgin Mary, and her grandson Jesus. [5]
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is an unfinished oil painting by High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1501–1519. [n 1] It depicts Saint Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. [1] Christ is shown grappling with a sacrificial lamb symbolizing his Passion as the Virgin tries to restrain him.
Saint Anne, whom the painting is intended to honor, is a wrinkled old grandmother, who witnesses the event. She is depicted more loosely, sketchily, and thinner than the other two figures. [1] Saint Anne is on the farther right wearing a dark navy-blue dress. She is the mother of the Virgin Mary and the grandmother of Jesus Christ.
The Holy Kinship was the extended family of Jesus descended from his maternal grandmother Saint Anne from her trinubium or three marriages. The group were a popular subject in religious art throughout Germany and the Low Countries, especially during the late 15th and early 16th centuries, but rarely after the Council of Trent.
The cartoon of Saint Anne, the Virgin and the Child Jesus is part of the Christian iconographic theme of the "Trinitarian Saint Anne", in which the Child Jesus, his mother Mary and his grandmother Anne are depicted together. [5] The painting of The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne was Leonardo da Vinci's first work to depict the subject. [6]
Saint Anne and the Virgin is a unique thematic interpretation of Anne and her daughter Mary. The image is comparable to the typical Virgin and Child also known as the Virgin Hodegetria. In this less frequent depiction, the Virgin takes on the role Jesus usually portrays. Her mother Saint Anne becomes the heavenly grandmother.