Sacrifice of isaac

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God tested Abraham’s faith by commanding him to sacrifice his son Isaac. Though Abraham was prepared to follow through, at the last instant an angel stayed his hand, and a ram was sacrificed instead. Pittoni distributes each element of the story – the pile of wood, cauldron of fire, Isaac’s discarded clothes, and ram – around the massive central figure of Abraham. The painting’s clear, bright colors and fluttering draperies show the influence of the artist’s Venetian contemporaries…

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) 1571-1610 Sacrifice of Issac 1603 ca. Oil on canvas 104 x 135 cm Uffizi Gallery, Florence #mauriciostefanowskyfineartist The painting illustrates the passage of the Old Testament in which God ordered Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Caravaggio faithfully depicts the crucial moment of the dramatic story, when Abraham, at the very moment in which he is about to sacrifice Isaac, is blocked by an angel sent by the Lord. “"Do not lay a hand on the boy...

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Giambattista Piazzetta trained with the tenebrist painter Antonio Molinari (1655–1704), then continued his studies in Bologna in 1705 with Giuseppe Maria...

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