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
- 1492Andrea MantegnaThis record
1511Raphael
1511Mariotto Albertinelli
1525Antonio di Donnino di Domenico del Mazziere
1525Brunswick Monogrammist
1527Andrea del Sarto
1527Andrea del Sarto
1528Andrea del Sarto
1530Lucas Cranach the Elder
1531Lucas Cranach the Elder
1540Master of the Augsburg Ecce Homo
1540Herri met de Bles
1542Titian
1549Unknown
1585Paolo Veronese
1588Paolo Veronese
1590Caravaggio
1599Annibale Carracci
1599Jan Brueghel the Elder
1603Caravaggio
1607Cigoli
1607Abraham Govaerts
1612Pieter Lastman
1612Peter Paul Rubens
1616Pedro Orrente
1616Pieter Lastman
1635Rembrandt
1645Rembrandt van Rijn
1685Giovanni Antonio Burrini
1750Unknown
1750Jean Jacques Spoede
1754Francesco 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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- Subject
- The Binding of IsaacGenesis 22:1-19joined by editor
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- Credit
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, GG_1842, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Licence
- PDM-1.0
- Evidence
- wikidata:P6216=public domain on Q27982635 (found by subject); commons:License=pd (Public domain) on File:Mantegna, sacrificio di isacco.jpg (read 2026-08-14)
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- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27982635
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Painted in grisaille to imitate carved stone — the episode treated as a relief, which is how the Renaissance most often argued a scene was ancient.
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A curious change or blending of other elements and a different feeling in Mantegna's work, softening the somewhat cold and rigid classicism, seems to have been brought about by his association with the Venetian painter Jacopo Bellini, the father of the two greater Bellinis (Giovanni and Gentile), whose daughter Nicolosia he married about this time (1450). This marriage with the daughter of Squarcione's rival, as Bellini was considered, and Mantegna's friendship with him, seems to have offended Squarcione and caused an estrangement, and even the active enmity of his first
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- The Binding of IsaacPainted in grisaille to imitate carved stone — the episode treated as a relief, which is how the Renaissance most often argued a scene was ancient.