01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART - Interpretation of the bible, Noël-Nicolas Coypel's HOLY FAMILY AND HOLY YEAR, With Footnotes - #182

Noël Nicolas Coypel (French, 1690-1734)

HOLY FAMILY AND HOLY YEAR IN A LANDSCAPE

Oil on Canvas

46.5 x 71 cm

Private collection

The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. Veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a Confraternity.

Matthew and Luke narrate the episodes from this period of Christ's life, namely his Circumcision and later Presentation, the Flight to Egypt, the return to Nazareth, and the Finding in the Temple.[Joseph and Mary were apparently observant Jews, as Luke narrates that they brought Jesus with them on the annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem with other Jewish families. More on The Holy Family 

In Christianity, a Jubilee, or holy, is a special year of remission of sins and universal pardon. In Leviticus, a Jubilee year is mentioned to occur every fiftieth year, during which slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.

In Western Christianity, the tradition dates to 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII convoked a holy year, following which ordinary jubilees have generally been celebrated every 25 or 50 years, with extraordinary jubilees in addition depending on need. Christian Jubilees, particularly in the Latin Church, generally involve pilgrimage to a sacred site, normally the city of Rome. The Catholic Church declared the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy for 2015–2016. More on a Holy Year

Noël-Nicolas Coypel (17 November 1690 – 14 December 1734) was a popular French artist.

The son of Noël Coypel and half-brother to the more-famous painter Antoine Coypel, he was accredited to the Academie Royale in 1716. He was appointed a professorship in 1733, but died shortly thereafter in a domestic accident. More on Noël-Nicolas Coypel 

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