Tzanes eventually settled in Venice and was a priest at San Giorgio dei Greci where he completed a large number of his works.

[1][2][3] Jesse of Bethlehem was the father of King David and his name is associated with many artistic renditions of biblical family trees.

The book describes the descent of the Messiah (Mashiach) and the tree is the depiction in art of the ancestors of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary.

Five angel heads are floating above the Virgin Mary while she is touching both of her parent's hands in an act of reassurance and affection.

The work is full of inscriptions and features the signature of the painter along with the date of completion ΠΟΙΗΜΑ ΕΜΜΑΝΟΥΗΛ ΙΕΡΕΩΣ ΤΟΥ ΤΖΑΝΕ ΑΧΜΔ (POEM OF THE PRIEST EMMANUEL TZANE 1644).