a visit with jesus

 Bible Art

The Yellow Christ
Artist: Paul Gauguin
 1889    Painting

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With Le Christ Jaune (The Yellow Christ) Gauguin used a representation of a 17th-century painted crucifix that hung in the Trémalo Chapel. The subject of the painting was actually the peasants kneeling before the crucifix. Gauguin wanted to portray the isolation and piety of the local peasantry in Pont-Aven France where he was visiting.

This painting is housed at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

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