The Silent Knight: A History of St. Joseph as Depicted in Art

Images of St Joseph are ubiquitous in the modern Catholic devotional landscape with his statues and figurines standing sentinel in every church and creche, but this was not always the case. The husband of Mary and foster father of Jesus spent the first centuries of Christian art as a great absentee, unaccounted for in visual representations of Christ's birth and infancy.

The Silent Knight explores and chronicles the remarkable rise of Joseph's iconography through masterpieces by some of his...