Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475 – 1564
Ruth and Obed
fresco — 1508-1512
Michelangelo Buonarroti biography
This work is linked to Ruth 4:17
Art and the Bible - Ruth 4 - Old Testament
Ruth 4 1 Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down. 2 And he took ten men of the elders of th
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This is Ruth holding the infant Obed, her and Boaz's son. Obed would become king David's grandfather.
The woman could also be Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law from a previous marriage. She nursed the child.
Interesting detail: a breast protrudes from the woman's robe. It indicates that she has recently nursed her child. The detail was concealed by prudent retouches until it was recovered during a recent restoration.
The fresco is the left half of one of the arches in the Sistine Chapel. The other half shows Boaz.
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