The Sacrifice of Isaac, Paolo Veronese

The Binding of IsaacGenesis 22:1-19

32 hands · 1492–1754

And he put forth his hand and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.Genesis 22:10

  1. Sacrifice of Isaac, Andrea Mantegna1492Andrea Mantegna
  2. Sacrifice of Isaac, Raphael1511Raphael
  3. The Sacrifice of Isaac, Mariotto Albertinelli1511Mariotto Albertinelli
  4. The Sacrifice of Isaac, Antonio di Donnino di Domenico del Mazziere1525Antonio di Donnino di Domenico del Mazziere
  5. The Sacrifice of Isaac, Brunswick Monogrammist1525Brunswick Monogrammist
  6. The Sacrifice of Isaac, Andrea del Sarto1527Andrea del Sarto
  7. The Sacrifice of Isaac, Andrea del Sarto1527Andrea del Sarto
  8. The Sacrifice of Isaac, Andrea del Sarto1528Andrea del Sarto
  9. Sacrifice of Isaac, Lucas Cranach the Elder1530Lucas Cranach the Elder
  10. The sacrifice of Abraham: An angel restraints Abraham from sacrifycing Isaac; the servants wait at the foot of the mountain (Genesis 22:10-12), Lucas Cranach the Elder1531Lucas Cranach the Elder
  11. The sacrifice of Abraham, Master of the Augsburg Ecce Homo1540Master of the Augsburg Ecce Homo
  12. Landscape with the Offering of Isaac, Herri met de Bles1540Herri met de Bles
  13. Sacrifice of Isaac, Titian1542Titian
  14. Abrahams offering, Unknown1549Unknown
  15. The Sacrifice of Isaac, Paolo Veronese1585Paolo VeroneseThis record
  16. The Sacrifice of Isaac, Paolo Veronese1588Paolo Veronese
  17. Sacrifice of Isaac, Caravaggio1590Caravaggio
  18. Abraham's Sacrifice, Annibale Carracci1599Annibale Carracci
  19. Wooded Landscape with Abraham and Isaac, Jan Brueghel the Elder1599Jan Brueghel the Elder
  20. Sacrifice of Isaac, Caravaggio1603Caravaggio
  21. Sacrifice of Isaac, Cigoli1607Cigoli
  22. Wooded landscape with the sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22), Abraham Govaerts1607Abraham Govaerts
  23. The sacrifice of Abraham, Pieter Lastman1612Pieter Lastman
  24. The Sacrifice of Isaac, Peter Paul Rubens1612Peter Paul Rubens
  25. The Sacrifice of Isaac, Pedro Orrente1616Pedro Orrente
  26. The Angel of the Lord Preventing Abraham from Sacrificing his Son Isaac, Pieter Lastman1616Pieter Lastman
  27. Abraham's Sacrifice, Rembrandt1635Rembrandt
  28. Abraham and Isaac, Rembrandt van Rijn1645Rembrandt van Rijn
  29. Abraham Preparing to Sacrifice Isaac, Giovanni Antonio Burrini1685Giovanni Antonio Burrini
  30. Sacrifice of Isaac, Unknown1750Unknown
  31. The Sacrifice of Isaac, Jean Jacques Spoede1750Jean Jacques Spoede
  32. The Sacrifice of Isaac, Francesco Guardi1754Francesco Guardi

What it depicts

Genesis 22:1-19The Akedah. Nineteen verses that painters have returned to for six hundred years, almost always at the same instant — the knife raised, the angel arriving — which is the tenth verse and not the first. Where the picture stops is itself an argument about the passage.

1After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.

2He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will show thee.

3So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass: and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.

4And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar off.

5And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass: I and the boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have worshipped, will return to you.

6And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son: and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword. And as they two went on together,

7Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou, son? Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the holocaust?

8And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an holocaust, my son. So they went on together.

9And they came to the place which God had shown him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it: and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.

10And he put forth his hand and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.

11And behold an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.

12And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.

13Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram amongst the briers sticking fast by the horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son.

14And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon even to this day it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.

15And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, saying:

16By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:

17I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore: thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.

18And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.

19Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there.

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The Sacrifice of Isaac, Paolo Veronese
The Sacrifice of Isaac — Paolo Veronese1585

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Museo del Prado gives this object the Iconclass notation71C131311, and the library's map reads that notation as Genesis 22:1-19. An editor has checked the picture against the passage and confirmed it.

Veronese returned to the subject more than once; both versions keep the angel’s arrival as a diagonal across the top of the picture.

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  • The Binding of IsaacVeronese returned to the subject more than once; both versions keep the angel’s arrival as a diagonal across the top of the picture.

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