The Bible In Paintings 29B — YOUNG JESUS TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE, Part 2

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LUKE, Chapter 2

41 Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. 43 After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. 44 Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. 45 When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. 46 After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.

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by THÉODULE AUGUSTIN RIBOT
"Jesus with the Doctors"

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by FRANCISCO DE ZURBRAN
"Jesus among the Doctors"

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by MATTHIAS STOMER
"Jesus among the Doctors"

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by MATTHIAS STOMER
"Christ among The Doctors"

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by REMBRANDT
"Jesus among the Doctors"

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by BARTOLOMEO MANFREDI
"Christ among the Doctors"

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by JAN STEEN, 1660
"Christ among the Doctors"

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by ALBRECHT DÜRER
"Jesus among the Doctors"

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by LUCA GIORDANO
"Christ among the Doctors"

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by WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT
"Christ among the Doctors"

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by DIEGO DE LA CRUZ
"Jesus among the doctors"

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by BERNARD VAN ORLEY
"Christ Disputing with the Doctors"

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by JOHANN VON SANDRART
"Jesus Christ among the Doctors"

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LUKE, Chapter 2

48 When his parents saw him, they were astonished. His mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.”

49 “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” 50 But they did not understand what he was saying to them.

51 Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. 52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

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by WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT
"Finding the Savior in the Temple"

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by LUDOVICO GIMIGNANI
"Christ Preaching in the Temple"

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by ABRAHAM DANIELSZ HONDIUS
"Christ among the Doctors"

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by ABSOLON STUMME
"Dispute with the Doctors"

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by PARIS BORDONE, 1545
"Christ Disputing in the Temple"

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by GIOTTO
"Christ among the Doctors"

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by HERMANN CLEMENTZ
"Christ and the Doctors in the Temple"

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by DUCCIO DI BUONINSEGNA
"Disputation with the Doctors"

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by PHILIPPE DE CHAMPAIGNE
"Jesus among the Doctors"

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by FELIKS SZYNALEWSKI
"Christ Leaving the Temple"

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by JAMES TISSOT
"Jesus Found in the Temple"

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"Young Jesus and the Doctors"

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[etabeta]

I like #47 for the intense colors, the attention to details, the expressions. Hunt went to Jerusalem to find models for his painting, wanting to be as ethnographically correct as possible. Outside construction of the temple is still going on, there is even a beggar at the entrance. Mary and Joseph arrive relieved to have found Jesus. On Jesus leather belt there is engraved a cross. In the expressions of the elders, we see the different responses to what happened...one blind and old clutching his Torah, symbolizing the inability to let go of the old doctrine and refusing the new. One has the face of a zealot, another points to Jesus as if to scorn what he just heard. In the background the sacrifice of a lamb is about to happen while the man who sold the animal counts his money. Jesus will change the law of animal sacrifices and cleanse the temple of the merchants and money changers. A great work, would like to see it in person.
Partial too to the stained glass window at the end.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thank you, Alba, for revealing this wonderful work to us. Rather prominently, a man pours wine: symbolizing Jesus spilled blood?

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Wow! You got a lot more out of 47 than I did. Good eye!

[etabeta]

Could be. Symbolism was big with the Pre-Raphaelites.

[Hebrews 11:6]

It certainly helps us that the photographer took such a high-resolution image, permitting effortless zooming.

[Albion Wilde]

Couldn’t pick just three favorites from this lovely grouping, so I went with four:

39, the Dürer, for its presumably witty inclusion of the monkey sitting near the learned men; is he indicating that Jesus is making a monkey out of them? Also love Mary and Joseph’s body language. Mary is prayerful, and Joseph has fearful eyes and is making the “tone it down” gesture. And especially Jesus, who is pointing out the verses on the page. Again, would the rabbis of his time have had bound leather books? But the artist is telegraphing the action for his viewers through their contemporaneous lens.

46, unattributed to any artist, but simple and beautifully composed and illuminated, with accurate body proportions, costuming and depiction of a scroll, not a bound book of the scriptures. Looks like it may have been a children’s book illustration in tempera or a detail of a larger painting.

56, “Christ Leaving the Temple” by Feliks Szynalewski, a Polish artist (1825 - 1892) rarely if ever seen in American art museums, paints a lavishly emotive scene of worshippers bowing, kissing the young Christ’s garment and throwing flowers, while his parents are modest and pensive, and young Jesus is humble. Beautiful color palette of rose, turquoise, gold and “Pompeii red” with dark accents, a combination seen elsewhere in Navajo art.

57, James Tissot, who is so often right on the money in every aspect of the scene he is depicting, hits another one out of the park here. Jesus is opening his arms in a gesture that both welcomes the world and foreshadows his eventual sacrifice. His cloak contains symbols of the cross in a natural way, as part of the fabric weaving. The learned elders are suitably ticked off, indignantly watching the back of Him as he leaves with His concerned but obedient (to God) parent-guardians.

[Albion Wilde]

I like #47 for the intense colors, the attention to details, the expressions.

That beautifully detailed one was my runner-up! See my list at post 8.

[etabeta]

Tissot never fails us. Look at menacing expression of the man on the right of Joseph, half turned, scornful, and it seems to me full of animosity.
All great paintings on this page. Dan is doing a fantastic, inspired, labor intense work for us.

[etabeta]

For years I have looked at details of a painting, not just the overall impression. You discover a lot of things when you zoom in on the details.

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#39: Now that you mention it: what else could Durer possibly be implying?

#46: The only image I found focusing exclusively on the interaction within the holy family, which after all is the only one actually quoted in the text.

#56: Assuming some sort of adulation actually occurred, it would have been the first publicly for Jesus since infancy: something new to get used to, along with any antipathy the priests expressed, vocal or otherwise.

#57: Tissot being Tissot.

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I was curious, and I needed to reconcile the various gospel harmonies with each other and with John, so yesterday I mapped out the remaining threads until reaching Holy Week. I am seat-of-the-pants estimating 70-80, which with occasional off-days puts our arrival there somewhere in August. FunFunFun!

[Maudeen]

I was involved in coordinating our area’s national day of prayer. At last evening’s Holy Spirit-led service with area churches this song came to mind . . . surely those in the Temple felt the presence of the young Jesus in that place . . .they had been with the Lord.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsc3o5Oupno

[spankalib]

These are wonderful. I have come to appreciate and learn so much more thanks to you and your great insights & analyses. Thank you!

I like the Durer #39 too, but it seems like he, Durer himself, is opining on the 'state of mind' or so-called 'wisdom' of the doctors, with the monkey, the mutt, and a few rather buffoonish expressions on the doctors. And yes! I caught Joseph's calming down gesture...I've been looking at the way various artists depict moods, action, thought, etc. through hands :)

#47, Hunt was also a fave. Like eta, I'm fond of that school, and love symbolism, or at least, trying to figure it out! There are so many moods in #47. I see the guy, 4th seated from the left (2nd left from the blind man - blindly clutching the old as eta pointed out) - that guy looks like he has the 900-yard stare, as if he can't believe what he's learned (from a mere boy). And also, the upper left face, younger, is looking on with awe.

Hunt's #41 is painting Hunt's opinion (imo) that Jesus (hand to brow) is having a little difficulty with the doctors' obtuseness.

Stomer, # 32 & #33 show prominent hand action. Notice the right hand of the figure on the left in #33, moving in a "I'll have to consider that" way. Subtle and wonderful.

I like the sense of movement in #53, Clementz. Mary, getting ready to whisper, and Joseph's left hand, almost getting ready to intervene if necessary.

#56 caught my eye too. You nailed it Albion. WTG Dan!

[etabeta]

I read in my book on symbols that during the Renaissance, the monkey was a general symbol of people’s basest instincts, of man being trapped by their desires. The shackled monkey represents the prison of secular pleasures. Albrecht Durer had a great interest in animals, this monkey seems to be one of the his earliest drawing.

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You have clinched it: this thread has had more serious art analysis than any other I’ve hosted. I’m hoping this continues!

[spankalib]

Another thing about #56...the Roman soldier bowing on the right is balanced by the darker pair, particularly the darkened girl on the left. I think the artist is foreshadowing Jesus’ death...notice she’s holding a spray of white flowers...

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surely those in the Temple felt the presence of the young Jesus in that place . . .they had been with the Lord.

Undoubtedly true--but most did not (ultimately, at least, if not immediately) welcome Him or His presence.

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#47, AWESOME interpretation! Thank You For that!