Tag: Abraham
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Italian School’s Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael, with Footnotes – #220
Sold for $1,000 USD in May 2022 Hagar is a biblical person in the Book of Genesis Chapter 16. She was an Egyptian handmaid of Sarah, who gave her to Abraham “to wife” to bear a child. The product of the union was Abraham’s firstborn, Ishmael, the progenitor of the Ishmaelites. After Sarah gave birth to…
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86 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – 58 Old Master Artists Portray The Life of Abraham, with footnotes, #10
Terah (Azar, in Arabic) the tenth in descent from Noah (Nuh), begat three sons, according to the Bible’s internal chronology, Abraham was born in the year 1948 from Creation (1813 BCE), Abram (Ibrahim ibn Azar), Nahor, and Haran. Haran begat Lot (who was thus Abram’s nephew), and died in his native city, Ur of the…
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10 Works, Today, June 13th. is Jan Victors’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #161
After curing Tobit’s blindness, returning the family’s wealth, and making it possible for Tobit’s son Tobias to marry his beloved Sarah, the Archangel Raphael has dropped his disguise and revealed himself as an angel, saying, “I was not acting on my own will, but by the will of God.” Such a scene of miraculous intervention…
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Giovanni Muzzioli, Abraham and Sarah in the Court of Pharaoh 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 177
According to the essay for the reconfirmation of the pensioner, the great biblical scene sent to Modena in 1875 provoked discordant opinions. The scene takes place in a seemingly external environment with the protagonists pushed in the foreground by an architectural backdrop, made with calibrated archaeological taste. The scene, Abraham and Sara close to each…