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The Vision of Saint Cajetan
c. 1736 · Tela (canvas) · Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia
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image 13.4×24 in on a 18×24 in sheet
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Saint Joseph holds the Christ Child on his knee, and the Child spreads His arms. Our Lady, in red and blue, reaches toward Him from her cloud. Below, in black, Saint Cajetan kneels in the shadow with his hands pressed to his chest; the Gallerie dell'Accademia describes him there, his gaze on the Christ Child, the Holy Family on seats of rosy cloud in diffused light above the dark earth. The Metropolitan titles a drawing of him Saint Cajetan of Thiene Holding the Infant Jesus, after the Christmas Eve of 1517 when the Virgin offered him the Child. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo gives the holding to Joseph. At the top left an angel carries the flowering rod, which, the Accademia says, keeps the memory of the betrothal of Mary and Joseph; in the Golden Legend, his rod alone blossomed. Cajetan's hands stay at his chest, empty.
Sources: Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, museum object page (Italian curatorial text) · Columbia University, Mapping Gothic France / Amiens Art & Humanities project · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Saint Cajetan of Thiene Holding the Infant Jesus', acc. 66.53.6, object page · Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend, 'The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary' — the marriageable men of the house of David bring rods to the altar, Joseph's alone blossoms, and the Virgin is entrusted to him · A. Sagrera and eds., 'Theatines', New Catholic Encyclopedia (via Encyclopedia.com)