The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in Christian art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally beg
Miniature in the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany, 1503–1508, by Jean Bourdichon
Holy Family with Saints Anne and John the Baptist, Andrea Mantegna, 1495-1500
Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece, c. 1500
Joos van Cleve, Metropolitan Museum of Art, c. 1512, adapting a van Eyck Madonna with Joseph added
According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.
Holy Family
…The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in Christian art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint…
Saint Joseph with the Infant Jesus by Guido Reni, c. 1635
Presentation at the Temple (detail), Byzantine, Panagia Amasgou, Monagri, Cyprus
Christ in the House of his Parents, 1850, by John Everett Millais
Joseph the Carpenter, by Georges de La Tour, c. 1645