a visit with jesus

 Bible Art

The Young Virgin
Artist: Francisco de Zurbaran
 1640-45    Painting

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 A young girl seated on the ground in the center of the canvas, hands clasped in her lap looking upward. Barely visible, surrounding her head is a semicircle of cherubic angels. A domestic scene, in Mary's lap rests a piece of fabric in which a threaded embroidery needle is resting upright, awaiting her next stitch. This was the first in this style for the artist: scenes of the holy childhood of the Virgin and Jesus

This oil on canvas -painting is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 

Traitor (fresco depicting Judas and Jesus at the Last Supper)
 1460    Fresco

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During the meal Christians traditionally call the last supper, Jesus announces that one of the disciples will betray him. Many other things would have been said and done that evening, but Matthew is only interested in the prediction of betrayal and the bread and wine. Matthew has already told his readers Judas approached the chief priests to betray Jesus. Jesus’s response to his anointing at Bethany may have prompted Judas to make this offer, but it is not clear what motivated Judas’s betrayal of Jesus.