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Abraham and the Three Angels is a c. 1670-1674 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, which bought it in 1948. [ 1 ] The work is one of eight paintings commissioned for Seville 's Hermandad de la Caridad , to which the artist himself belonged and one of whose commandments was to ...
It depicts three angels sitting at a table. On the table, there is a cup containing the head of a calf. In the background, Rublev painted a house (supposedly Abraham's house), a tree (the Oak of Mamre), and a mountain (Mount Moriah). The figures of angels are arranged so that the lines of their bodies form a full circle.
Abraham [a] (originally Abram) [b] is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. [7] In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; [c] [8] and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic ...
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Abraham Serving the Three Angels is a 1646 oil-on-panel painting by Rembrandt. [1] [2] [3] The scene depicts Abraham, it is based on an episode from the Book of Genesis [4] and it has Mughal influence. [5] Today it is in a private collection since it was bought in an auction in 1848 for £64 (equivalent to $8,000 in 2023). [6]
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Saint Jerome Penitent and Abraham Served by Three Angels are two paintings by the Italian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina. They are housed in the Pinacoteca Civica, Reggio Calabria. These two panels are considered to be among the first works by Antonello da Messina. [1] They were both intended for devotion of private owners.
In Abraham's case, this is how it happened: When the three angels visited him (as reported in Genesis 18), Abraham ran to meet them and prepare for them a great banquet. He told Sarah to prepare cakes for them, but when Sarah was kneading, she perceived that the manner of women was upon her, so Abraham did not serve his visitors any of the cakes.