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Isaac

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Images about Isaac

2 images from works
  • Jacob offers bread and soup to an exhausted Esau, who has returned from hunting; to the left, angels move upon Jacob's ladder; to the right, the blind Isaac feels Jacob's disguised hands. Engraving by E. Kirkall after Skeitz.
  • The funeral of Abraham. Engraving by M. van der Gucht after G. Hoet.

Works from the collections

6 works

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    A man and a woman dancing to the sound of a woman playing the flute, watched by a company enjoying a picnic or wedding; a river landscape beyond. Etching by J. Mason, 1748, after Claude Lorraine.

    Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682. | Date: Jan. 1748 | Reference: 3055858i
    • Books

    Isaac and Oedipus : a study in Biblical psychology of the sacrifice of Isaac, the Akedah / [Erich Wellisch].

    Wellisch, Erich, 1898-1954. | Date: [1954]
    • Books

    Abrahami patriarchae liber Iezirah, sive Formationis mundi, patribus quidem Abrahami tempora praecedentibus revelatus, sed ab ipso etiam Abrahamo expositus Isaaco, et per Profetarum manus posteritati conservatus ... / Vertebat ex hebraeis, et commentariis illustrabat.

    Postel, Guillaume, 1510-1581. | Date: 1552
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    The funeral of Abraham. Engraving by M. van der Gucht after G. Hoet.

    Hoet, Gerard, 1648-1733. | Reference: 15887i
    • Books

    Fear and trembling : a dialectical lyric / by Johannes de silentio ; translated with an introduction by Alastair Hannay.

    Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. | Date: 1985
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