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, an upcoming Irish horror film
  • "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)