Jesus in art. INFANCY, PUBLIC LIFE AND PASSION . Level 1 / Beginner / 20 questions / 15 minutes

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Click on the name of this sculpture
1. The Descendt
2. "The embrace"
3. Veronica holding Jesus's body.
4. Our lady of Sorrows
5. The Pietà
6. "The crying woman"
What does this image represent?

Ivan Nikoleavich KRAMSKOY (1873), The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1. Jesus in the desert.
2. Pentecostés.
3. The parable of the prodigal son.
4. The prayer in the garden.
5. The Transfiguration
Click on every correct answer according to this painting.
1. It represents the Last Supper.
2. It represents Jesus eating and drinking like everybody else.
3. Jesus tells his disciples to announce the good news of the kingdom of God to the end of time.
4. Jesus blesses the bread, breaks it and gives it to the disciples. Then he takes a cup, gives thanks and hands it to them saying, 'This is my body...' , 'This is my blood'.
5. Jesus says his last words before his arrest and death on the cross.
6. Jesus gives his life as food and salvation for all the people.
Two questions: 1.- Click on the title of this wall painting (GIOTTO, 1306). 2.- Christians remember this event on ____________.
1. Easter Sunday or Resurrection Sunday.
2. Holy Thursday
3. Jesus blesses the crowd.
4. Good Friday
5. Jesus conquers Jerusalem.
6. Jesus Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem.
7. Palm Sunday.
This work of art is based on a passage from the NT, which one?
1. Jn 4,7-15:
  "A Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, 'Give me something to drink'... The Samaritan woman said to him, 'You are a Jew. How is it that you ask me, a Samaritan, for something to drink?"
2. Jn 8,6-14:
  "The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman along who had been caught committing adultery [...]. Jesus said, 'Let the one among you who is guiltless be the first to throw a stone at her'."
3. Matthew 15,21-28:
  "Jesus went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And suddenly a Canaanite woman started shouting 'Lord Son of david take pity on me. My daughter is tormented by a devil.[...] Jesus answered her, 'Woman, you have great faith. Let your desire be granted'. And from that moment her daughter was well again"
Click on the name of this painting.

This is a work by Van DYCK, 1618, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
1. St. Joseph blesses the child Jesus.
2. Let the little children come to me.
3. The cure of the blind man born blind
4. The Holy Family
What can you see on the right side of this picture?
1. Jesus with the Samaritan woman
2. The temptations of Christ.
3. Jesus curing a blind man.
4. Jesus calling St. Peter to follow him.
5. Jesus on his way to Jerusalem.
26 What can you see in both images?
1. Jesus baptizing John the Baptist.
2. The Baptism of Jesus
3. The Apostles's Calling
What does this work represent?
1. Jesus' body is wrapped in a shroud and put in a tomb.
2. Holy Thursday
3. Palm Sunday.
4. Jesus is ripped of his robes: the Disrobing of Christ.
5. Jesus blesses the crowd.
On the background of this image it appears a group of armed men wearing helmets. What do they try to do?
1. To accompany the High Priest.
2. Nothing. They are only a decorative accessory.
3. To arrest Jesus.
4. They represent Pontius Pilate's authority
5. To accompany Jesus
What does this painting represent?. It is a work by GIOTTO
1. Jesus is judged by the Sanhedrin.
2. Jesus is stripped of his clothes.
3. Jesus Apprehension (arrest) in the garden of Gethsemane.
4. Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns).
5. Judas' Kiss.
6. The Flagellation (Jesus receives forty lashes)
Click on the correct name of this painting.
1. The crowd follows Jesus and listens to him.
2. A crown of reed (a cane).
3. Jesus' Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem.
4. Jesus carrying the Cross by himself on his way to the small hill of Calvary.
Name of the representation and the gospel passage where you can see the angel Gabriel telling the virgin Mary God (the Father) has chosen her to be the mother of his Son, Jesus.
1. D
2. King Herod doesn't accept Jesus as the messiah. Because of this Joseph, Mary and Jesus fled to Egypt.They have learned that Herods intents to kill the infants of that area.
3. The Annunciation
4. The encounter between the virgin Mary and Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist. They were both pregnant.
Pay attention to this fresco. Click on the correct gospel scene.

Sandro BOTTICELLI, 1481-1482, The Sistine Chapel, The Vatican, Rome.
1. Jesus teaching the crowd in the Temple.
2. A Sacrifice at the Temple.
3. The temptations of Christ
4. The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple.
Look at this image; What do you see?
1. The women go to Jesus's tomb and find it empty.
2. It is a scene from the parable of the hiden treasure.
3. They point out where Jesus's body should be buried.
4. Some women point out where Jesus's body is buried.
One of the following images represents "The Adoration of the Magi", which one?

A B
C < /td> D
1. B
2. C
3. A
4. D
What does this image represent?
1. The Final Judgement: you can see at the top of the image the apostles and at the bottom the angels judging the souls.
2. Jesus and the apostles with Mary, in the center of the image, are filled with the Holy Spirit.
3. The Second Coming of Jesus to judge all people.
4. Jesus prayer in the "Mount of Olives".
5. Jesus Ascension into heaven.
What does this painting represent?

Lorenzo VENEZIANO, 1370, The State Museum, Berlin, Germany.
1. Jesus and Zacchaeus
2. Jesus calling Peter and Andrew to be his followers
3. The miraculous catch of fish
4. Jesus teaching Peter and John to fish.
Click on the name of this painting. It is a work by Peter Paul RUBENS.

RUBENS painted this work in 1605. You can see it in the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria..

Bear in mind this text from Luke 2,21: "When the eighth day came and the child was to be circumcised, they gave him the name Jesus, the name the angel had given him before his conception."
1. The Adoration of the shepherds.
2. The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple.
3. The Adoration of the Magi.
4. The Circumcision of Christ.
How do we name this representation of Jesus's genealogy?.

Girolamo GENGA, c. 1535, The National Gallery, London.
1. The tree of Jesse
2. False, because all that the gospels tell us truly happened.
3. False

A	B
C < /td>	D