XVI Century, Sacrifice of Isaac
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XVI Century Sacrifice of Isaac Sanguine on paper, 76 x 56 cm With frame 93 x 73 cm In Genesis (22, 1-13) it is told how God put Abraham to the test by asking him to sacrifice his son Isaac. The patriarch obeyed and only when he was about to cut the boy's throat did an angel come down to stop his gesture and communicate God's satisfaction to him. The scene, not infrequent in Florentine art, symbolized a prefiguration of God's disposition to sacrifice his son Christ for the good of humanity. Andrea del Sarto solved the task with monumental figures of the protagonists, elegantly composed to generate a serpentine movement that unfolds along a diagonal. Isaac is seeds