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Scripture, as it has been seen

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32 pictures · 1 passage

The Binding of Isaac Genesis 22:1-19

The Akedah. Nineteen verses that painters have returned to for six hundred years, almost always at the same instant — the knife raised, the angel arriving — which is the tenth verse and not the first. Where the picture stops is itself an argument about the passage.

  1. Sacrifice of Isaac Andrea Mantegna 1492 Kunsthistorisches Museum, GG_1842, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  2. Sacrifice of Isaac Raphael 1511 Vatican Museums, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  3. The Sacrifice of Isaac Mariotto Albertinelli 1511 Yale University Art Gallery, 1959.15.13b, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  4. The Sacrifice of Isaac Antonio di Donnino di Domenico del Mazziere 1525 Fogg Museum, 1977.177, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  5. The Sacrifice of Isaac Brunswick Monogrammist 1525 Department of Paintings of the Louvre, INV 1980, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  6. The Sacrifice of Isaac Andrea del Sarto 1527 Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gal.-Nr. 77, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  7. The Sacrifice of Isaac Andrea del Sarto 1527 Cleveland Museum of Art, 1937.577, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  8. The Sacrifice of Isaac Andrea del Sarto 1528 Museo del Prado, P000336, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  9. Sacrifice of Isaac Lucas Cranach the Elder 1530 Bavarian State Painting Collections, 4557, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  10. The sacrifice of Abraham: An angel restraints Abraham from sacrifycing Isaac; the servants wait at the foot of the mountain (Genesis 22:10-12) Lucas Cranach the Elder 1531 Liechtenstein Museum, GE 739, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  11. The sacrifice of Abraham Master of the Augsburg Ecce Homo 1540 Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 5393, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  12. Landscape with the Offering of Isaac Herri met de Bles 1540 Cincinnati Art Museum, 1944.44, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  13. Sacrifice of Isaac Titian 1542 Santa Maria della Salute, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  14. Abrahams offering Unknown 1549 Amsterdam Museum, SA 2066, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  15. The Sacrifice of Isaac Paolo Veronese 1585 Museo del Prado, P000500, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  16. The Sacrifice of Isaac Paolo Veronese 1588 Kunsthistorisches Museum, GG_3825, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  17. Sacrifice of Isaac Caravaggio 1590 Princeton University, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  18. Abraham's Sacrifice Annibale Carracci 1599 Department of Paintings of the Louvre, MR 130, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  19. Wooded Landscape with Abraham and Isaac Jan Brueghel the Elder 1599 National Museum of Western Art, P.2002-0001, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  20. Sacrifice of Isaac Caravaggio 1603 Uffizi Gallery, 4659, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  21. Sacrifice of Isaac Cigoli 1607 Galleria Palatina, 95, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  22. Wooded landscape with the sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22) Abraham Govaerts 1607 Bavarian State Painting Collections, 4818, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  23. The sacrifice of Abraham Pieter Lastman 1612 Rijksmuseum, B1670, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  24. The Sacrifice of Isaac Peter Paul Rubens 1612 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 66-3, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  25. The Sacrifice of Isaac Pedro Orrente 1616 Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 82/3, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  26. The Angel of the Lord Preventing Abraham from Sacrificing his Son Isaac Pieter Lastman 1616 Department of Paintings of the Louvre, RF 920, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  27. Abraham's Sacrifice Rembrandt 1635 Hermitage Museum, ГЭ-727, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  28. Abraham and Isaac Rembrandt van Rijn 1645 The Art Institute of Chicago, John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection, 1924.614. CC0.
  29. Abraham Preparing to Sacrifice Isaac Giovanni Antonio Burrini 1685 Department of Paintings of the Louvre, RF 1983 51, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  30. Sacrifice of Isaac Unknown 1750 Medobčinski muzej Kamnik, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  31. The Sacrifice of Isaac Jean Jacques Spoede 1750 via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
  32. The Sacrifice of Isaac Francesco Guardi 1754 Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.235.1, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
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