''Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac'' is a 1715 painting by the

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artist

Federico Bencovich Federico Bencovich (; 1677 – 8 July 1753), also known as Federighetto or Ferighetto Dalmatino among others, was a Croatian-Italian late Baroque painter from Venetian Dalmatia. Although was among prominent painters of his era in North Italy, Ger ...

in the

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on museum website This painting shows

Abraham Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father who began the Covenant (biblical), covenanta ...

with a knife in his hand raised to kill his son

Isaac Isaac ( ; ; ; ; ; ) is one of the three patriarchs (Bible), patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baháʼí Faith. Isaac first appears in the Torah, in wh ...

at the moment that the angel intervenes. Bencovich became court painter of the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz

Lothar Franz von Schönborn Lothar Franz von Schönborn-Buchheim (4 October 1655 – 30 January 1729) was the Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1694 to 1729 and the Bishop of Bamberg from 1693 to 1729. As Archbishop of Mainz, he was also Archchancellor of the Holy Roman Emp ...

in 1715 and completed four large canvas masterpieces for his gallery in

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. These were ''Apollo and Marcia'', '' Hagar and Ishmael in the desert'', ''

Iphigenia In Greek mythology, Iphigenia (; , ) was a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus a princess of Mycenae. In the story, Agamemnon offends the goddess Artemis on his way to the Trojan War by hunting and killing one of Artem ...

's sacrifice'' and ''Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac''. The canvas of Abraham was taken in the beginning of the 19th century, but it was attributed to

Piazzetta Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo art, Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and Genre works, genre s ...

at the time. The Strossmayer gallery in Croatia purchased the painting at a London auction in 1936 and research on the painting has determined this to be the same one. File:Giovanni Battista Piazzetta - The Sacrifice of Isaac - WGA17427.jpg, ''The Sacrifice of Isaac'', 1715, by Piazzetta

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