Joseph the Carpenter

Infobox Painting

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painting_alignment=right
image_size=250px
title=Joseph the Carpenter
artist=Georges de la Tour
year= 1645Horst Woldemar Janson & Anthony F. Janson. "History of Art: The Western Tradition". Prentice Hall (2003), [http://books.google.com/books?id=MMYHuvhWBH4C&pg=PT608 p. 608] . ISBN 0131828959.]
type=Oil on canvas
height=130
width=100
height_inch=51 1/8
width_inch = 31 3/4
city=Paris
museum=Louvre

"Joseph the Carpenter" is an oil painting by Georges de la Tour created 1645. The painting depicts a young Jesus with Saint Joseph, his foster father.Ann Sutherland Harris. "Seventeenth-Century Art and Architecture". Laurence King Publishing (2005), [http://books.google.com/books?id=Xd0CuzsPYJcC&pg=PA266 p266] . ISBN 1856694151.] Joseph drills a piece of wood with an awl. The geometry of the wood arrayed on the floor is reminiscent of that of the cross.John Rupert Martin. "Baroque". Westview Press (1977), [http://books.google.com/books?id=HlwS0dIhW-4C&pg=PA126 p. 126-27] . ISBN 0064300773.] John Rupert Martin writes that Jesus' patience represents "filial obedience and the acceptance of his destiny as martyr".

References

Further reading

* Jesse Bryant Wilder & John Garton. "Art History for Dummies". For Dummies (2007), [http://books.google.com/books?id=2M4Sm9vL5UcC&pg=PA214 p. 214] . ISBN 0470099100.
* Hugh Brigstocke. "Georges de la Tour". In "The Oxford Companion to Western Art". Oxford University Press (2001). ISBN 0198662033.
* Michel Sylvestre. "Georges de la Tour" In "Grove Dictionary of Art". Oxford University Press (2003). ISBN 1884446000.