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The Sacrifice of Isaac is the title of two paintings from c. 1598 - 1603 depicting the sacrifice of Isaac.The paintings could be painted by the Italian master Caravaggio (1571–1610) but there is also strong evidence that they may have been the work of Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, a talented early member of the Caravaggio following who is known to have been in Spain about 1617–1619.
Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac is a 1715 painting by the Baroque artist Federico Bencovich in the Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters. [ 1 ] This painting shows Abraham with a knife in his hand raised to kill his son Isaac at the moment that the angel intervenes.
Abraham was commanded by God to offer up Isaac as a human sacrifice in the land of Moriah. Proceeding to obey, he was prevented by an angel as he was about to sacrifice his son, and slew a ram which he found on the spot. As a reward for his obedience he received another promise of a numerous seed and abundant prosperity. [1] [2]
On that reading, in the original E version of the binding Abraham disobeys God's command, sacrificing the ram "instead of his son" (v. 13) on his own responsibility and without being stopped by an angel: "And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son; but Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and beheld, behind him ...
The Madrid version is known to have been acquired by Charles, Prince of Asturias, later Charles IV of Spain, and appears in the written record for the first time in a 1779 inventory of the relatively informal royal residence built for the prince, the Casita del Príncipe in the grounds of the Escorial Monastery.
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When he makes to sacrifice his son, an angel calls from heaven, and tells Abram not to harm Isaac. Instead, he must offer the "Ram of Pride". Then the last two lines of the poem diverge from the Biblical account, set apart for greater effect: "But the old man would not so, but slew his son, / and half the seed of Europe, one by one." [2]
The Brome play of Abraham and Isaac (also known as The Brome "Abraham and Isaac", The Brome Abraham, and The Sacrifice of Isaac) is a fifteenth-century play of unknown authorship, written in an East Anglian dialect [1] of Middle English, which dramatises the story of the Akedah, the binding of Isaac.