Tag: Genesis
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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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19 Works, December 30th. is Osman Hamdi Bey’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #257
A total of 17 figures, 16 people and a dog, are skillfully depicted in front of the Yeşil Mosque in Bursa. The painting, which reveals the fine workmanship of the Ottoman architecture and the detail in the decorations, is a document about the Ottoman daily life. It is stated in the painting that Osman Hamdi…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by the Old Masters, With Footnotes – 75
Alessandro Rosi, FLORENCE 1627 – 1697 CAIN AND ABEL Oil on canvas 26 3/4 by 20 1/2 in.; 68 by 52 cm. Private collection Rosi depicts the moment just after Cain has slain his brother Abel, who lays ashen in the foreground, as God the Father appears in a swirl of clouds above. In Rosi’s striking…