This scene of the Visitation of Mary to her relation St Elizabeth is from the early 13th century Life of Mary window (1217-1220) at Chartres Cathedral.
Saint-Elizabeth Theme Pages
The mother of John the Baptist, and a relative of the Virgin Mary.
These statues (1230-1255) are part of the entral portal of the north transept, known as the "Portail de la Vierge" of the western façade of Reims Cathedral. The two figures on the left depict the annunciation with Gabriel looking at the Virgin Mary, the figures on the right represent the visitation of Mary to Saint Elizabeth.
This statue of Saint Elizabeth (1230) is part of a Visitation tableux on the central portal of Reims Cathedra.
This late 15th-century fresco forms part of the Visitation cycle painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio for Giovanni Tornabuoni’s chapel in Santa Maria Novella. It depicts the meeting of the Virgin Mary and her cousin Saint Elizabeth outside the walls of Hebron, rendered here as a contemporary Tuscan cityscape. The two central figures embrace with restrained dignity, their gestures emphasising the recognition of their miraculous pregnancies.
This panel from the late medieval Magnificat Window (c1490) at Great Malvern Priory depicts the meeting of the Virgin Mary and her kinswoman Saint Elizabeth. The two figures stand closely together, their joined hands and gentle inclination of heads emphasising the moment of recognition described in Luke’s Gospel. Both are shown with distinctive English Gothic features—elongated faces, fine linear drapery, and soft colouring enhanced by yellow stain.
Early 16th century Netherlandish roundel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary with Saint Elizabeth in Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire.
These twin stained-glass lights in the Cathedral of Sainte-Croix, Orléans, created in 1861 by the Lobin Studios of Tours, depict St Elizabeth and her son St John the Baptist. They form part of the mid-nineteenth-century restoration of the cathedral’s glazing, executed under the direction of the prolific French glass painter Lucien-Léopold Lobin.
These four stained-glass panels in the quire clerestory of Gloucester Cathedral were designed and executed by Clayton and Bell, one of the foremost English glass studios of the Victorian era. The sequence depicts Zechariah and St Elizabeth, the parents of St John the Baptist, together with St John himself and St Simeon
This panel in the east window of the north aisle of Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire depicts St Elizabeth and is by Ford Madox Brown.