Clan

Antonio Viviani (il Sordo)
Abraham and the Three Angels
ca. 1612
fresco
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Abraham and the Three Angels
1773
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Jacopo Vitali
Abraham and the Three Angels
1624
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Brunswick Monogrammist
Abraham conducting Isaac to Sacrifice
ca. 1550
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Alessandro Allori
Sacrifice of Isaac
1583
oil on canvas (altarpiece)
Chiesa di San Niccolò Oltrarno, Florence

Johann Liss
Sacrifice of Isaac
ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Francesco Monti (il Bolognese)
Study for Sacrifice of Isaac in Pendentive
before 1768
drawing
British Museum

Stefano Pieri
Sacrifice of Isaac
before 1629
oil on canvas
Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

Jacopo Tintoretto and workshop
Sacrifice of Isaac
ca. 1550-55
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Frederic Taubes
Jacob wrestling with the Angel
1944
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Paul Gauguin
Vision of the Sermon (Jacob wrestling with the Angel)
1888
oil on canvas
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

Biagio d'Antonio
The Story of Joseph
ca. 1482
tempera on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Antoine-Denis Chaudet
Joseph sold by his Brothers
1784
terracotta relief (winner of the Prix de Rome)
Musée du Louvre

Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari)
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
ca. 1600-1605
oil on panel
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Cecco Bravo (Francesco Montelatici)
Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
ca. 1655-60
oil on canvas
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Francesco Granacci
Joseph presenting his Father and Brothers to Pharaoh
ca. 1515-17
oil on panel
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Mattia Preti (il Cavalier Calabrese)
Jacob blessing Joseph's Sons
ca. 1660-80
oil on canvas
private collection

Here, which looked north before the Cambrian alignment,

Like the cupped hand of the keen excavator

Busy with bones, the memory uncovers

        The hopes of time;

Of empires stiff in their brocaded glory,

The luscious lateral blossoming of woe

        Scented, profuse;

And of intercalary ages of disorder

When, as they prayed in antres, fell

Upon the noblest in the country night

        Angel assassins.

Small birds above me have the grace of those who founded

The civilisation of the delicate olive,

Learning the laws of love and sailing

        On the calm Aegean;

The hawk is the symbol of the rule by thirst,

The central state controlling the canals;

        And the blank sky

Of the womb's utter peace before

The cell, dividing, multiplied desire,

And raised instead of death the image

        Of the reconciler. 

– W.H. Auden (1933)