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has nineteen figures. Although the character of the older generations is matriarchal, notably, the youngest generation, shown as children, are all male. They often carry their attributes, as do the three boys in the centre of the Geertgen: the saw
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The Council of Trent dismissed the legend of the three marriages of Anne, and the full subject was thereafter rarely painted, although the limited group of the families of the cousins Jesus and
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Extra figures may relate to a local Dutch legendary genealogy which held that Anne’s sister, Hismeria (or Esmeria), was the mother of John the Baptist’s mother
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or three marriages. The group were a popular subject in religious art throughout Germany and the
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and of a second child, Eliud, who was in turn the grandfather of
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Smaller groups of Jesus and his parents, often plus his cousin
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These the men Joseph, Alpheus, and Zebedee took in marriage.
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The first bore Christ; the second bore James the Less,
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Whom her husbands Joachim, Cleophas, and Salome begot.
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The first theologian to set forth the concept of the
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The Holy Kinship
An oil painting of St. Anne, the Virgin Mary and their numerous relatives and offspring, set within a Gothic cathedral
Geertgen tot Sint Jans
Oil on wood
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam
Jesus
Saint Anne
Low Countries
Council of Trent
Virgin Mary
twelve apostles
John the Evangelist
James the Greater
James the Less
Simon
Jude
John the Baptist
John the Baptist
Elizabeth
Gospel of Luke
1:36
Holy Family
Haymo of Halberstadt
Geertgen tot Sint Jans
Simon
James the Great
John the Evangelist

Master of the Holy Kinship

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