Christ taking leave of his Mother

The departure of Christ from Mary 's since the 15th century, a type of representation of Christian art. Shown is the farewell of Jesus Christ from his mother before the crucifixion. In most cases, Mary is depicted collapsed in a flexed posture, often kneeling or in pain, and Jesus speaks soothingly to her. Often Jesus has his arm around the shoulder of Mary, or holding her hands, while he opened to the outside slightly raised holding the right hand ( the so-called speech, gestures ).

The departure of Christ from Mary is also called a holiday, pictorial or figural representations as tourist groups. The type was especially during the Baroque period - widely, which corridor still numerous monuments testify in the strongly Catholic cultural landscapes in Central Europe - in the course of time as part of the Counter-Reformation increasingly tended forms of Marian devotion.