The life of Christ in Western painting, episode by episode, and the works that depict each one.
The stable, the shepherds, the magi and the flight into Egypt — and the Madonna and Child that grew out of them.
The Infant Jesus Distributing Bread to Pilgrims
Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Simeon with the Infant Jesus
Benjamin West
St. Christopher with the Infant Christ and St. Peter
Cima da Conegliano
Adoration of the Christ Child
Correggio
The Adoration of the Name of Jesus
El Greco
St. Joseph with the Infant Jesus
Elisabetta Sirani
The Jordan, the wilderness, the wedding at Cana and the supper table: the public years between childhood and arrest.
Gethsemane to Golgotha: the agony, the betrayal, the scourging, the crown of thorns and the road to Calvary.
The cross itself and what follows it: the descent, the lamentation, the Pieta and the entombment.
The empty tomb, Noli me tangere, the road to Emmaus, Thomas's hand and the ascension.
Saint John the Baptist Pointing to Christ
Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Albrecht Durer
Small winged altar with the Resurrection of Christ, St. Barbara (Left Wing) and St. Catharine (right Wing)
Lucas Cranach the Elder
