Holy Family with Saint John and a Goldfinch
A domestic Holy Family scene — the goldfinch a quiet, traditional omen of the Passion to come.
- Work
- Oil on canvas
- Artist / creator
- Cusco School (anonymous)
- Origin & date
- Peru (Cuzco), c. 1730
- Held by
- MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Format
The full-resolution scan — yours to print, study, and keep.
Size
$24.00
The story
The goldfinch is a small, specific detail with a long European pictorial pedigree: the bird was believed to feed on thorns, making it a folk symbol of Christ's eventual crown of thorns whenever it appears in a Holy Family or infancy scene. Its presence here, alongside the young John the Baptist, ties this Cusco canvas to a much older Mediterranean iconographic tradition, imported wholesale and repainted in an Andean workshop's own hand.
A quieter, domestic register — Mary, Joseph, and two children in an ordinary-feeling scene — next to this collection's grander gold-leaf icons and militia angels.
About this reproduction
- • Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from MALI, Museo de Arte de Lima, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)’s open-access release.
- • Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. The heirloom frame is gold, under acrylic, with no mount.
- • Color-managed to the source scan.
- • Ships in 5–9 business days; satisfaction guarantee.
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Saint Lucy
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Adam and Eve in Paradise
Genesis, rendered as an Andean garden — the first sin, before the fall.