The Holy Family with the Dragonfly, also known as The Holy Family with the Mayfly, The Holy Family with the Locust, and The Holy Family with the Butterfly is an engraving by the German artist Albrecht
De Heilige Familie met de libelle, RP P OB 1204
A variant: The Holy Family with the Mayfly (NGA 1943.3.3453)
The common European mayfly Ephemera vulgata
Dürer Alte Pinakothek
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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
The Holy Family with the Dragonfly
…Holy Family with the Butterfly, The Holy Family with the Locust, and The Virgin with the Dragonfly, is an early engraving by Dürer. It depicts both the Holy Family and the Holy Trinity, as the Virgin Mary sits on a bench holding Jesus with Joseph beside them, while God the Father and the Holy Ghost in the form of…
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