Sujet

Border with the Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, about 1525-1530. Creator: Simon Bening.

Légende

Border with the Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek; Prayer Book of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, about 1525-1530. Additional Info: Abraham, in a sumptuously plumed helmet, triumphantly returns with his army to Salem after rescuing his nephew from captivity. Melchizedek, king of Salem, greets him at the city gates and offers him bread and wine in honor of his victory. Christians interpreted this event as an Old Testament prefiguration of the Last Supper, which appears on the opposite page. At the Last Supper, Christ had offered bread and wine to his disciples, telling them that it was his flesh and blood.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM24A77_082

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

135,5Mo (7,8Mo) / 47,0cm x 72,2cm / 5550 x 8531 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors Germany city animal road people male man men animals horses horse religious wall walls town meeting German country religion monarch guy Belgium color king royal scene Christianity walled city Belgian war Renaissance text depiction location Armed Forces century Bible alphabet royalty Biblical miniature concept return border troops manuscript lettering Army illustrated returning warfare prayer book Thoroughfare Colour elderly man gold paint Old Testament Abraham armed services Genesis letter i City Walls 16th century prophet sixteenth century Book of Genesis illuminated manuscript sovereign tempera walled town illustration outside manuscript Biblical scene old man old men gold melchisedech Simon Bening Bening Simon Abram lower case Melchizedek german text Folio town wall 1520s Heritage Art Brandenburg folio recto Tempera colours gold paint and gold leaf Benig Simon Simon Benig Benning Simon Simon Benning Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg Cardinal Albrecht of Cardinal Albrecht Albert of Brandenburg Albrecht of Brandenburg Prayer Book of Cardinal Albrecht