Editing Christian art (section)

==Subjects==
[[File:1602-3 Caravaggio,Supper at Emmaus National Gallery, London.jpg|thumb|300px| ''[[Supper at Emmaus (London) (Caravaggio)|Supper at Emmaus]]'', 1601, by Caravaggio. Oil on canvas, 139 x 195&nbsp;cm. [[National Gallery, London]]]]
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Subjects often seen in Christian art include the following.  See [[Life of Christ in art|Life of Christ]] and [[Life of the Virgin]] for fuller lists of narrative scenes included in cycles:

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* [[Adoration of the Magi in Art|Adoration of the Magi]]
* [[Adoration of the shepherds]]
* [[Angels in art|Angels]]
* [[Annunciation]]
* [[Arrest of Jesus]]
* [[Ascension of Jesus in Christian art|Ascension of Jesus]]
* [[Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Art]] or [[Dormition of the Virgin]]
* [[Baptism of Jesus]]
* [[Christ in Majesty]]
* [[Christ Pantocrator]]
* [[Coronation of the Virgin]]
* [[Crucifix]]
* [[Descent from the Cross]]
* [[Hand of God (art)|Hand of God]]
* [[Holy Family]]
* [[Holy Trinity Icon]]
* [[Madonna (art)|Madonna]]
* [[Madonna and Child]]
* [[Maestà]]
* [[Nativity of Jesus in art|Nativity of Jesus]]
* [[Noli me tangere]]
* [[Passion of Jesus]]
* [[Pietà]]
* [[Resurrection appearances of Jesus]]
* [[Salvator Mundi]]
* [[Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus]]
* [[Shield of the Trinity]]
* [[Stations of the Cross]]
* [[Doom (painting)|The Last Judgment]]
* [[Last Supper in Christian art|The Last Supper]]
* [[Tree of Jesse]]
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===Motifs===
The Virgin Mary is shown spinning and weaving, appearing in artworks with a loom or knitting needles, weaving cloth over her womb, or knitting for her son. The imagery, much of it German, places the sacred narratives in the domestic realm.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rudy |first=Kathryn M. |title=Weaving, Veiling and Dressing: Textiles and their Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages |publisher=Brepols |date=2007 |page=3}}</ref> She is shown weaving in paintings of [[The Annunciation]], or spinning. Although spinning was less common an example is found in some convents where nuns would spin silk, presumably to create a link between the convent community of women and the image of the Mary.<ref>{{cite book |last=Twomey |first=Lesley K. |title=The Fabric of Marian Devotion in Isabel de Villena's Vita Christi |publisher=Brepols |date=2007 |page=61}}</ref>