# The Visitation [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BROEDERLAM, Melchior]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Tempera on wood ## Commentary The Visitation is not a literal rendering of the Bible story. Broederlam gives us the essence of St Luke's text: Mary, already pregnant with the Infant Jesus, meets her cousin Elizabeth who, although supposedly barren, is now by the grace of God expecting a child in her old age. In the painting, the two women are depicted side by side. Mary wears a large blue cloak which she gathers round herself with one hand, while with her free hand she gestures towards Elizabeth. The older woman is dressed in red and green, her head veiled in a fine white material. Although the painter has followed the Scriptures by setting the scene in a mountainous landscape, according to the Gospel the two women meet inside Zacharias's house and not as here, outdoors, in the shadow of a steep rocky cliff. ## Related artworks - [Presentation in the Temple and Flight to Egypt]() - [The Annunciation and the Visitation]() - [The Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [The Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [The Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [The Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [The Annunciation]() - [The Dijon Altarpiece]() - [The Flight into Egypt \(detail\)]() - [The Flight into Egypt \(detail\)]() - [The Flight into Egypt \(detail\)]() - [The Flight into Egypt]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()