The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple

Giovanni Francesco da Rimini's Presentation of Jesus at the Temple at the Louvre, painted around 1450, depicts the ritual presentation of the infant Christ required by Jewish law. The aged Simeon's recognition of the Christ Child as the Messiah gave this scene special prophetic significance Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of the period, demanding careful layer-by-layer construction and patient craftsmanship It is now held at The Louvre in Paris, one of the world's largest and mo

The temple interior frames the ritual presentation with the aged Simeon receiving the Child, rendered in Giovanni Francesco's careful narrative manner with the architectural setting and figure grouping standard for this subject.