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Christ’s Second Visit to the House of Mary and Martha
Also titled Jezus’ tweede bezoek aan het huis van Maria en Martha
Cornelis Engebrechtsz (Leiden, ca. –1527)
c. 1515 - c. 1520
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 55 cm x width 44.5 cm x height 54.5 cm (painted surface) x width 43 cm (painted surface)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
About this work
Here we are witnesses to a dramatic moment. Christ sits next to his mother, the Virgin Mary, in the house of the sisters Martha and Mary Magdalene, the latter of whom is seated at his feet on the floor. Both Marys - Jesus’s mother and his friend - are trying in vain to dissuade him from going to Jerusalem, where he will die on the cross.
