Christ and the Virgin in the House at Nazareth (Q5966034)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
religious art (Q2864737)
artist:
Francisco de Zurbarán (Q209615)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
country of origin:
Spain (Q29)
location of final assembly:
Spain (Q29)
exhibition history:
Zurbarán (Q86459785)
Year in Review (Q86536314)
depicts:
Virgin Mary (Q345)
Christ Child (Q942467)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
mAHBr6boIfyPCQ
catalog URL: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.117
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: Stories of Christ’s childhood and adolescence became increasingly popular during the Counter-Reformation because they were easily understood by a broad public. Rather than taking a story from the Bible, Zurbarán appears to have invented this subject, in which Jesus pricks himself on a crown of thorns he is weaving, foretelling his later torment at the Crucifixion. Despite the grand scale and monumental figures, the work has remarkable intimacy and quietness, emphasizing such details as the Virgin’s tears.
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