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Description: | By the same hand as another painting in the Middlesbrough collection, King Ahasuerus Extending the Sceptre to Esther, this work takes a New Testament subject. It shows the moment that Christ's parents found him expounding the scriptures to a group of learned and devout Jews in the Temple. He was aged only twelve, and his great knowledge and grasp of the ancient texts and prophecy is presented in the Gospels as an early sign of his Messiahship. The painter uses a crowded composition to create an impression of a busy, excited crowd of learned onlookers, gathered around this apparently precocious child. Mary and Joseph are shown in the background, looking on. | Subjects: | religion (Christ in the Temple) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to imitator of Bassano, Jacopo, il vecchio (Italian painter and draftsman, ca. 1510-1592) Previously attributed to Pietro della Vecchia (Italian painter, 1603-1678) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8609... | Go to resource |
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