a visit with jesus

 Bible Art

Procession of the Magi / The Journey of the Magi
Artist: Andrea del Sarto
 1511    Painting

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This fresco depicts the biblical account of the three Magi arriving at King Herod's palace. The lower foreground, and right side of the painting, are dominated by an animated crowd of foreign merchants carrying exotic goods and animals (including a giraffe visible in the right background). On the left, del Sarto has rendered the edge of Herod's palace with careful foreshortening. One of the unusual things about this fresco is the beautiful Tuscan countryside that forms the painting's backdrop. 

This fresco is in Fresco - Santissima Annunziata, Florence 

Reading the Fate of the Christ Child
Artist: Josefa Obidos
 1667    Painting

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This painting is a scene in which the youthful Virgin Mary, wearing the head covering of an Egyptian gypsy, sits in a dark interior between a column and an ornate wooden table upon which sits a bowl containing a melon, apples, grapevines, and flowers. On Mary's lap sits the Christ child, who gazes curiously downward at an older gypsy woman kneeling on the ground who is holding his hand as she reads his palm. To the left of the scene, but nestled in closely, are two additional women, a baby, and a child. All four lean in intently, evidently curious about the scene that is unfolding before them. The only other object identifiable in the scene is a section of purple drapery just behind the Virgin's head. 

This oil on copper -work of art is in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan