# Joseph Conducted to Prison

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## Artwork

- Artist: [GRANACCI, Francesco](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/granacci-francesco-r20eb674b0c2ac7>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Tempera on wood, 95 x 224 cm

## Commentary

Joseph Conducted to Prison c. 1515 Tempera on wood, 95 x 224 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence A wealthy Florentine patrician commissioned Granacci and other artists to decorate his bedroom with scenes from the story of Joseph. Here, the hero is led to prison, an episode that prefigures the arrest of Christ.

## Related artworks

- [Assumption of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/granacci-francesco-r20eb674b0c2ac7/assumption-of-the-virgin-raa6ab20334bed1>)
- [Entry of Charles VIII into Florence](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/granacci-francesco-r20eb674b0c2ac7/entry-of-charles-viii-into-florence-rbce0522783928c>)
- [Virgin and Child with Sts Francis and Zenobius](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/granacci-francesco-r20eb674b0c2ac7/virgin-and-child-with-sts-francis-and-zenobius-r39cf1509e1696c>)

## Attribution

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