1462, Benozzo Gozzoli, Predella panel showing the Presentation of Christ in the Temple and the Purification of the Virgin -- Philadelphia Museum of Art
From the museum label:
This painting features both the presentation of the baby Jesus to the elders in the temple and the purification of the Virgin in which, following Jewish tradition, an offering was made to the temple after a woman gave birth. Here, Joseph has brought the offering of turtle doves.
Benozzo Gozzoli made this panel for an altarpiece of a religious boys club that met in the Convent of San Marco in Florence. This explains why the painting's architecture sets the events in the convent's church rather than in biblical Jerusalem.
1462, Benozzo Gozzoli, Predella panel showing the Presentation of Christ in the Temple and the Purification of the Virgin -- Philadelphia Museum of Art
From the museum label:
This painting features both the presentation of the baby Jesus to the elders in the temple and the purification of the Virgin in which, following Jewish tradition, an offering was made to the temple after a woman gave birth. Here, Joseph has brought the offering of turtle doves.
Benozzo Gozzoli made this panel for an altarpiece of a religious boys club that met in the Convent of San Marco in Florence. This explains why the painting's architecture sets the events in the convent's church rather than in biblical Jerusalem.