What is Tree of Jesse?
[[File:Tree of Jesse Louvre OA10428.jpg|thumb|[[Ivory]] panel from 12th century Germany, showing a tree of Jesse.]] The '''Tree of Jesse''' is a depiction in art of the ancestors of [[Christ]], shown in a tree which rises from Jesse of Bethlehem, the father of King David and is the original use of the family tree as a schematic representation of a [[genealogy]]. [[Category:Christian symbols]] [[Category:Christian art]]