The Holy Family with Angels
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Joseph is at work in the background. Caroline Farey sees parts of a yoke in the pieces he is shaping — and the sleeping child in front of him will grow to say: Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart.
Mary has looked up from the Scriptures. Farey reads the fleece lining his red coverlet as the child revealing himself: the lamb led silently to the slaughter.
Justin Martyr wrote in the second century that Christ himself made ploughs and yokes. The metaphor was a trade first.
Sources: thehistoryofart.org, The Holy Family with Angels by Rembrandt · thehistoryofart.org, cross-checked with Web Gallery of Art and artbible.info · Encyclopaedia Britannica entry; artbible.info tripartite lighting analysis · Dr Caroline Farey (Maryvale Institute), 'Interpreting the Content of Rembrandt's Holy Family', New Liturgical Movement, February 2012 · artbible.info, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn: The Holy Family with Angels · Matthew 11:29, Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · St Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, ch. 88 · Joan M. Hogan, 'The Iconography of Rembrandt's Depictions of the Holy Family (in a domestic setting)', MA thesis, Queen's University, 2008
And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart.
Luke 2:51 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
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