Visitation

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

• The Visitation (disambiguation)
• Visit (disambiguation)