Visitation
# 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
