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The Trinity depicts the three angels who visited Abraham at the Oak of Mamre (Genesis 18:1–8), but the painting is full of symbolism and is interpreted as an icon of the Holy Trinity. At the time of Rublev, the Holy Trinity was the embodiment of spiritual unity, peace, harmony, mutual love and humility. [6]
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]
In Genesis 18:1-15 three individuals appear to Abraham at the Oak of Mamre. The interpretation that this appearance is related to the Trinity is a Christian interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures. Consequently, the title of "Old Testament Trinity" is interpreting the Genesis narrative as much as it is naming the icon.
God sends Abraham three angels, whom Abraham receives hospitably. They announce that he will have a son within a year, although he and his wife are already very old. Also that God intends to execute judgment upon Sodom and Gomorrah, whereupon he intercedes for the sinners. PEOPLE: יהוה YHWH - Abraham - Sarah. PLACES: Mamre. RELATED ...
Genesis 11:6-8 11 "Abraham Journeying into the Land of Canaan" Genesis 12:1 12 "Abraham and the Three Angels" Genesis 18:9-10 13 "The Flight of Lot" Genesis 19:24-26 14 "The Expulsion of Ishmael and His Mother" Genesis 21:14 15 "Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness" Genesis 21:17-18 16 "The Trial of Abraham's Faith" Genesis 22:10-12 17 "The ...
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 ...
Abraham and the Three Angels; Abraham Casting out Hagar and Ishmael; Abraham Meets Melchizedek; Abraham Serving the Three Angels; Abraham's Oak (painting) C.
The narrative has the Lord appearing to Abraham, who was visited by three men. [24] In Genesis 19, "the two angels" visited Lot at Sodom. [25] The interplay between Abraham on the one hand and the Lord/three men/the two angels on the other was an intriguing text for those who believed in a single God in three persons.