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Fragments of a Canopy, possibly from a Choir Stall, and Panel with the Tree of Jesse, French, Late 15th Century

From the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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The blessings of thy father are strengthened with the blessings of his fathers: until the desire of the everlasting hills should come; may they be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the Nazarite among his brethren.

Genesis 49:26

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in the vom staal-historienbibel, illuminated by the workshop of diebold lauber, alsace, c. 1460

source: Solothurn, Zentralbibliothek, Cod. S II 43, fol. 314v

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Detail of a stained glass window in All Saints Church, Hove, Sussex, England, representing the Tree of Jesse

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You are not leaving, I know,

but shifting into image – my head already is haunted with you. I have become a living afterlife.

All images return to you – the body at the root of my branching.

— Seán Hewitt, from "Tree of Jesse," Tongues of Fire

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Details of the voussoirs on the 12th century west portal of Senlis Cathedral

Photos by Charles Reeza

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Mystical-Religious Origins of the Phylogenetic Tree

Bible des capucins, 1180

Hamburg Cathedral Polyptych,1499. Musée de Varsovie

Tree of life by Haeckel, 1879

A Novel Representation Of The Tree Of Life by Laura A. Hug et al., 2016

The Tree of Jesse is a depiction in art of the ancestors of Jesus Christ, shown in a branching tree which rises from Jesse of Bethlehem, the father of King David. It is the original use of the family tree as a schematic representation of a genealogy.

Pictorial representations of the Jesse Tree show a symbolic tree or vine with spreading branches to represent the genealogy in accordance with Isaiah's prophecy. In the medieval period, when heredity was all-important, much greater emphasis than today was placed on the actual royal descent of Jesus, especially by royalty and the nobility, including those who had joined the clergy. Between them, these groups were responsible for much of the patronage of the arts. During the Medieval era the symbol of the tree as an expression of lineage was adopted by the nobility and has passed into common usage initially in the form of the family tree and later as a mode of expressing any line of descent. The form is widely used as a table in such disciplines as biology. It is also used to show lines of responsibility in personnel structures such as government departments. - Wikipedia

This is the Tree of Jesse, the (alleged) genealogical tree of Jesus - according to the Book of Isaiah, the bloodline of Jesus can be traced until Jesse, father of King David.

This specific Tree of Jesse can be found in the Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary in the Church of the Convent of Saint Francis, in the town of Estremoz. This altarpiece was made circa 1652 and it is, probably, one of the best (and most beautiful) XVII Century altars in Portugal.