Visitation Explained

Visitation may refer to:

Law

Visitation (law) or contact, the right of a non-custodial parent to visit with their children
Prison visitation rights, the rules and conditions under which prisoners may have visitors

Music

Visitation (Division Day album), 2009
Visitation (Sam Jones album), 1978
Visitation (Joe McPhee album), 1985
Visitation (Jonah Sharp and Bill Laswell album), 1994
"Visitation", an instrumental by Paul Chambers from Chambers' Music, 1956

Religion

Visitation (Christianity), a liturgical feast day commemorating the visit of the Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth
Visitation Order of enclosed nuns
- Visitation Convent
- Visitation Monastery
Visitation Church, Montreal
Canonical visitation, an inspection made by a clergyman authorised under Catholic canon law
Visitation, a funeral custom where a mourner visits the deceased's family and views the body

Visual arts

Images of the Visitation (Christianity), the visit of the Virgin Mary to St. Elizabeth

Visitation (Albertinelli), 1503
Visitation (Cariani), c.1524-1528
Visitation (Dürer), a 1503 engraving by Albrecht Dürer
Visitation (Ghirlandaio), a 1491 painting by Domenico Ghirlandaio displayed in the Louvre
Visitation (El Greco), a 1608–1613 painting by El Greco
Visitation (Perugino), c.1472
Visitation (Raphael), a c. 1517 painting by Raphael
Visitation (Rubens), 1610s
Visitation (Tintoretto, Bologna), c.1550
Visitation (Tintoretto, Venice), c.1588
Visitation (van der Weyden), c.1445

Other uses

"Visitation" (Stargate Universe), an episode of Stargate Universe
Heraldic visitation, a tour of inspection by a herald (or other officer-of-arms) to regulate and register coats of arms, and to record pedigrees; also, the written record of such a tour

See also