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The Man Bearing a Pitcher (L'homme à la cruche)
Artist: James Tissot
 c. 1890    Painting

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This work is an Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper  measuring 9 7/8 x 6 5/16 in. (25.1 x 16 cm).  It is signed bottom left: "J.J. Tissot" 

It is in the Brooklyn Museum, but not on view.

The Meeting at the Golden Gate
Artist: Giotto
 1304-06    Painting

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Many of the episodes depicted within Padua’s Capella degli Scrovegni (Arena Chapel) fresco cycle hinge upon a moment of heightened emotional tension, either given in the context of some form of a departure or entailing some form of encounter or meeting. The Meeting at the Golden Gate, which forms the last episode in the top register on the south wall, is an example of the latter.

What Giotto manages to achieve is to imbue the scene with a sense of truthfulness and intimacy. Immediately prior to this moving meeting between Joachim and his wife Anna, Joachim, while sleeping, receives a vision from an angel who tells him that his wife had conceived a daughter, Mary. That particular episode, The Vision of Joachim, is depicted immediately prior to The Meeting. Joachim is then told to go and meet his wife at the Golden Gate of Jerusalem.

 

Earliest Images of Jesus

The Bible, its themes, events and characters, are the subject of many of mankind's finest works of art.

Here, we endeavor to present a myriad of examples from the history of art.

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