The Vision of Saint Cajetan
The original, as its museum records it
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About this painting
Cajetan is the saint who holds the Christ Child. On Christmas Eve 1517 the Virgin offered him the infant; the Metropolitan titles a drawing of him Saint Cajetan of Thiene Holding the Infant Jesus.
Tiepolo withholds it. His hands are pressed to his chest, not around a child; the Holy Family reclines on rosy cloud and the light around them stops short of his shadowed corner.
At left an angel in green holds a flowering rod, the sign by which Joseph was chosen as Mary's husband. The one proof of election in the picture belongs to somebody else.
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)
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 11,944 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.