Disputation with the Doctors

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Disputation with the Doctors is a New Testament scene in Christian art depicting the young Jesus engaging in learned debate with teachers in the Jerusalem Temple.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Disputation with the Doctors canonical 2

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian iconography theme
New Testament scene
biblical episode in art
subject in Christian art
ageOfJesusDepicted twelve years old
associatedWith Feast of the Holy Family
devotion to the Child Jesus
basedOn Gospel of Luke
Luke 2:41–52
chronologicallyFollows Return from Egypt
chronologicallyPrecedes Hidden life of Jesus in Nazareth
commonIn Baroque art
linked to: Baroque

Renaissance art
medieval Christian art
depicts Jesus debating teachers
Jesus in the Temple
scribes and doctors of the Law
young Jesus
linked to: Child Jesus
hasSetting Jerusalem Temple
linked to: Jewish Temple
hasTheme authority of Jesus
learning and teaching
recognition of Jesus’ identity
wisdom of Christ
languageVariant Christ among the Doctors
Jesus among the Doctors
oftenIncludes Joseph
Mary
crowd of onlookers
partOf Infancy of Christ cycle
linked to: Infancy of Christ

Life of Christ cycle
linked to: Life of Christ
portrayedInWorkBy Albrecht Dürer
Bernardo Luini
James Tissot
Luca Giordano
Paolo Veronese
linked to: Veronese

Pinturicchio
Rembrandt
linked to: Rembrandt van Rijn
religiousTradition Christianity
scripturalGenre Gospel narrative
typicalFigureCount Jesus and several elders
typicalIconography Jesus seated among older teachers
gesture of debate or explanation
teachers shown with books or scrolls
usedIn fresco cycles
illuminated manuscripts
panel paintings
stained glass cycles

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Finding in the Temple alsoRenderedAs Disputation with the Doctors
Christ among the Doctors languageVariant Disputation with the Doctors