| Visitation | |
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| Artist | Tintoretto |
| Year | c.1588 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 158 cm× 237 cm(62 in× 93 in) |
| Location | Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice |
The Visitation is a c.1588 oil painting of the Biblical Visitation by Tintoretto, held in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice. [1] The picture, first recorded in a 1588 receipt, hangs high over an arch on the main staircase, [2]
The Visitation was an event described by St Luke in the Bible's New Testament (Luke 1:39-45) when Mary, the expectant mother of Jesus Christ, visited her older relative Elizabeth and her husband, the old priest Zechariah. Elizabeth, who although past child-bearing age, had also been blessed by God with a child, the future John the Baptist. When Elizabeth heard Mary arrive she exclaimed, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy".
In this composition Elizabeth to the right appears to be catching Mary as she stumbles forward. Behind Elizabeth is Zechariah and at the far left stands Joseph. Tintoretto had also painted the same event some thirty years previously, a c.1550 version which hangs in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna.
Zechariah is a Jewish figure in the New Testament and the Quran, and venerated in Christianity and Islam. In the Bible, he is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron in the Gospel of Luke, and the husband of Elizabeth who is a relative of the Virgin Mary.
The Magnificat is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary, the Canticle of Mary and, in the Byzantine tradition, the Ode of the Theotokos. It is traditionally incorporated into the liturgical services of the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, Lutheran Churches and the Anglican Communion. Its name comes from the incipit of the Latin version of the text.
Visitation may refer to:
Jacopo Robusti, best known as Tintoretto, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized the speed with which he painted, and the unprecedented boldness of his brushwork. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed il Furioso. His work is characterised by his muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective, in the Mannerist style.
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