a visit with jesus

 Bible Art

L'Innocence
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
 1893    Painting

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This masterpiece, L'Innocence, was created by the French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1893. It is in a private collection.  The painting shows purity and tenderness in the exchange of love between a mother and her child.

La Pietà (Madonna della Pietà)
Artist: Michelangelo
 1498    Sculpture

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The Madonna della Pietà (Italian 1498–1499), informally known as La Pietà, is a marble sculpture of Jesus and Mary at Mount Golgotha representing the "Sixth Sorrow" of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Michelangelo Buonarroti, now in Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. The sculpture captures the moment when Jesus, taken down from the cross, is given to his mother Mary.