a visit with jesus

 Bible Art

Adam and Eve
Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
 1597-1600    Painting

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This painting by Rubens shows Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. It is an oil on panel measuring 182.5 cm (71.8 in); width: 140.7 cm (55.3 in)

Adoration in the Forest
Artist: Fra Filippo lippi
 1459    Painting

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In this unusual scene (that is also known as Mystical Nativity) Lippi confounds conventional depictions that place the Adoration in a stable surrounded by animals and the wise men. The setting is a deep pine forest with five figures. This is a tribute to the monastery of Camaldoli located outside Florence on a steep forested hillside, to which the Medici family had connections. The composition has two structural elements linking the figures. A standing ovoid links Mary, Jesus, John the Baptist, St. Romuald, and God the Father who is common to both compositional devices. The second structural element runs downward from God the Father in a straight line that bisects the oval, through the Holy Spirit to the new-born Christ. 

This oil on panel is in the  Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.

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