Panel from the Life of the Virgin stained glass window at Chartres Cathedral depicting Joachim, and Anne's rejected sacrifice in the temple.
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Joachim after his sacrifice to the temple had been rejected went into the hills to tend to his sheep and pray for a child. In this panel from the Life of the Virgin Mary (1217-1220), at Chartres Cathedral, the angel Gabriel is telling him that he will be the father of the Virgin Mary.
This panel of Joachim and Anne talking together is apart of the Life of the Virgin Window at Chartres Cathedral.
Having fled into the the mountains with the shepherds and the sheep, Joachim is told by the angel Gabriel that he and Anne will have a daughter. This is one of the scenes based the Protevangelium that were sculpted by Jehan Soulas, between 1519-1521, for the Choir Screen at Chartres Cathedral
Showing St Joachim, St Anne and the Virgin Mary, this sculpture by Jehan Soulas dated from 1519-1521, is part of the choir screen at Chartres cathedral.
Illustrating the story from the Protoevangelium of James and other apocryphal accounts of Joachim and Anne, meeting after an angel has announced that they are to have a child.