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Juan de Flandes: Christ and the Canaanite Woman

 

Here is the panel “Christ and the Canaanite Woman” by Juan de Flandes, pseudonym of a painter of the late 15th and early 16th century belonging to the school of Spanish-Flemish art. This painting of forty-seven small panels commissioned by Queen Isabella the Catholic was executed at the time when the artist was in her service. About twenty-seven of these panels remain, including Christ and the Canaanite woman.

The painter placed Jesus in the brightest part of his painting, on the right. Kneeling before him, the Canaanite pleads with him. On the left, the group of disciples: they are dressed in simple coats, like Jesus himself, as often portrayed by the painters of that time. In contrast, the woman and a man wearing a turban, on the left, are dressed as the inhabitants of the Turkish Middle East were represented at the time: Jesus is in a foreign country, even hostile; the looks of the disciples on the man wearing the turban underline this. Behind Jesus, Peter seems to address him, echoing the disciples’ judgments: “Send her away, for she keeps shouting after us.”

This Gospel of the Canaanite woman is interesting, isn’t it? It’s about having the humility to ask, when the conditions are not