TIME Photo Essay: The Art of Joseph: Joseph's limited profile in Scripture eventually inspired his admirers to greater feats of pious interpretation, resulting in a colorful and varied cavalcade of carpenters. Marriage of the Virgin Mary, detail, 1500-1504, Pietro Perugino. Joseph's iconography often included a flowering staff in reference to an early non-Biblical account of the divine sign that he was chosen to be Mary's protector: his wooden rod bloomed and/or produced a dove. PHOTO BY MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS. PHOTO BY ERICH LESSING/ART RESOURCE
MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS. PHOTO BY ERICH LESSING/ART RESOURCE
The Art of Joseph: Joseph's limited profile in Scripture eventually inspired his admirers to greater feats of pious interpretation, resulting in a colorful and varied cavalcade of carpenters
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Marriage of the Virgin Mary, detail, 1500-1504, Pietro Perugino. Joseph's iconography often included a flowering staff in reference to an early non-Biblical account of the divine sign that he was chosen to be Mary's protector: his wooden rod bloomed and/or produced a dove
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FROM THE December 19, 2005 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED Tuesday, December 13, 2005

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