Joseph's Tunic

Joseph's Tunic (Spanish: La túnica de José) is a 1630 oil painting by Spanish artist Diego Velázquez, now held in the museum of the Sacristía Mayor del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Madrid, Spain). The painting is also knowns as Joseph's Bloodied Coat Presented to Jacob. It depicts the Old Testament narrative (Genesis, 37-50) of Joseph's brothers presenting his bloody robe to their father, Jacob. Velázquez painted this work during his first journey to Rome, while staying at the house of Don Manuel de Fonseca y Zúñiga, the Sixth Count of Monterrey and Spanish ambassador to Rome. It was later brought back to Spain with Velázquez's Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan.

Despite Joseph's Tunic depicting a biblical story and Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan being a mythological scene, scholars often consider the two paintings a pair. Both works were done without royal commission but were late…

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