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''The Line of Saint Anne'' is a c.1500 oil on panel painting by
''The Line of Saint Anne'' is a c.1500 oil on panel painting by Gerard David
Gerard David (c. 1460 – 13 August 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Only a bare outline of his life survives, although some facts are known. He may have been the Meester ...
, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon
The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (french: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon) is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon. Located near the Place des Terreaux, it is housed in a former Benedictine convent which was active during the 1 ...
, which acquired it in 1896. It shows the ancestors of Saint Anne
According to Christian apocryphal and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels. In writing, Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come o ...
, mother of the Virgin Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother o ...
, along the lines of a Tree of Jesse
The Tree of Jesse is a depiction in art of the ancestors of Jesus Christ, shown in a branching tree which rises from Jesse of Bethlehem, the father of King David. It is the original use of the family tree as a schematic representation of a ge ...
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External links
*http://www.mba-lyon.fr/mba/sections/fr/collections-musee/peintures/oeuvres-peintures/primitifs/lignee_sainte_anne?&startingReq=/sections/fr/collections-musee/peintures/oeuvres-peintures/&from_url=http%3A//www.mba-lyon.fr/mba/sections/fr/collections-musee/peintures/departement4598 {{DEFAULTSORT:Line of Saint Anne category:1500s paintings Paintings in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon category:Paintings by Gerard David Paintings of the Madonna and Child Saint Anne