Adoration in the Forest – Lippi Parable classroom materials

classroom materials

Ecce Homo – Correggio is a restored Catholic artwork available as a high-resolution digital image from Restored Traditions

travelling from Ur to Canaan on camels

which collected the blood of Christ at the Crucifixion

Adoration in the Forest – Lippi Parable classroom materialsThis unique painting, depicting the Nativity of Jesus in a forest, is by the fifteenth century Carmelite friar and artist, Filippo Lippi. Commissioned by a member of the Medici family, this artwork is meant to evoke a penitential spirit as well as a sense of awe from the viewer. The Infant Christ lies, not in a brightly lit stable surrounded by shepherds, but in the dark grass of a field surrounded by trees, with His Mother kneeling beside Him. The