Group exhibition

The Holy Family at Home

Late medieval paintings and illuminated manuscripts showing Mary, Joseph and the Christ Child as a family at home, around Getty’s new Gerard David.

Around 1500, Northern European artists began to picture the Holy Family as an affectionate trio in a domestic room, with Joseph as a devoted father. Getty’s recently acquired Holy Family by Gerard David (about 1520) hangs with books of hours and panel paintings of the period, among them Quentin Metsys’s Madonna of the Cherries and loaned Virgin and Child panels by Dieric Bouts and Rogier van der Weyden.

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