The Presentation of Christ in the Temple

The Presentation of Christ in the Temple from 1435 by Giovanni di Paolo at the Metropolitan Museum is an early work showing the artist developing his distinctive style. The temple setting provides the architectural framework for the ceremonial presentation of the infant Christ Oil on canvas, increasingly preferred over panel in the sixteenth century, offered greater flexibility for large-scale compositions It is now held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, with one of the finest coll

The temple architecture is rendered with Giovanni di Paolo's inventive spatial sense, the ceremony depicted with precise observation of liturgical gesture within a decoratively rich setting.