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Sacrifice of Isaac (Caravaggio)

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137: 301: 25: 284:(tenebrism) with which Caravaggio was to revolutionize Western art, falling like a stage spotlight on the face of the youthful angel. The faces of Abraham and Isaac are in shadow, but show great emotion. The gestures of the hands are acutely eloquent, and the angel's hand is resting on the ram's head in imitation of the way Abraham's left hand rests on the head of his son. The 725: 238:
and an early biographer, the artist, while convalescing in the Hospital of the Consolazione, did a number of paintings which the prior took home with him to Seville. (The hospital had a Spanish prior from 1593 to around mid-1595.) That would date the work to the mid-1590s, but it seems far more
288:'s other hand is holding the knife, but he is already relaxing as he listens to the angel. The three figures and the ram are shown without background or context, with nothing to distract from the powerful psychological drama as God's promise is delivered. 65:, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Knowledge (XXG). 252:
now in the museum of Toledo cathedral, which suggests that the two should be considered together. The presence of paintings by Caravaggio in Spain at an early date is important for the influence they may have had on the young
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as the lamb of God, or sometimes referred to as "the ultimate sacrifice", foreshadowing Jesus' crucifixion. It is strongly debated that the word "
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The symbol of the ram has many facets of meaning. In the Biblical era, the ram's horn was a symbol of power. Referred to as a
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offering Abraham a ram in Isaac's place. The scene is lit with the dramatically enhanced
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Abraham, the man and the symbol : a Jungian interpretation of the biblical story
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sophisticated than anything else known from that period of Caravaggio's career, and
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116 cm × 173 cm (46 in × 68 in)
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The model for Isaac bears a close resemblance to the model used for the
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to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is
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is the title of two paintings from c. 1598 - 1603 depicting the
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Madonna of Loreto (Madonna dei Pellegrini, Pilgrims' Madonna)
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who is known to have been in Spain about 1617–1619.
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Bartolomeo Cavarozzi
Oil on canvas
Princeton, New Jersey
sacrifice of Isaac
Caravaggio
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi
Spain
Princeton, New Jersey
Giulio Mancini
Caravaggio
Peter Robb
John the Baptist
Velázquez
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Caravaggio following
Abraham
Isaac
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chiaroscuro
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