All of the people gathered together in this church are relatives of christ. Saint anne, the virgin’s mother, is seated at bottom left. To the right of her is mary with the christ child on her lap. Their husbands saints joachim en joseph stand behind them. On the right are saint elisabeth, the virgin’s cousin, with her son john the baptist, mary cleophas (in profile), with mary salome standing behind elizabeth. The three boys in the middle of the church can be identified from their attributes as simon zelotes with the saw (the son of mary cleophas and alpheus), st john the evangelist with the chalice, and james the greater with the tiny barrel of wine - the latter two being the sons of mary salome and zebedee. The other figures may be the other three sons of maria cleophas and alpheus, james the less, jude thaddeus and joseph the just, and cleophas (st anne’s second husband), alpheus, salomas (st anne’s third husband) and zebedee (mary salome’s husband). Object Type: painting. Genre: religious art. Date: circa 1495. Place of creation: Haarlem. Dimensions: height: 137.2 cm (54 in) ; width: 105.8 cm (41.6 in). Medium: oil on oak panel. Collection: Rijksmuseum. Geertgen tot Sint Jans, workshop - The holy kinship - Rijksmuseum
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