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Title
The Holy Kinship
Artist
Cora Wandel
Medium
Photograph
Description
"The Holy Kinship" is a wooden sculpture made around 1480 to 1490. The sculptor’s name is unknown.
The Holy Kinship was a popular theme in religious art throughout Germany especially during the late 15th and early 17th century. The Holy Kinship were the extended family of Jesus descended from his maternal grandmother Saint Anne. According to this tradition, Saint Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary, was grandmother not just to Jesus but also to five of the twelve apostles: John the Evangelist, James the Greater, James the Less, Simon and Jude. These apostles, together with John the Baptist, were all cousins of Jesus. The genealogy holds that Anne's sister, Hismeria (or Esmeria), was the mother of John the Baptist's mother Elizabeth and of a second child, Eliud, who was in turn the grandfather of Saint Servatius. The basis for this family tree rests upon the "trinubium", the tradition that Anne had married three times.
The sculpture was photographed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Partial source: Wikipedia
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November 13th, 2016
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