Why it matters
Abraham is about to sacrifice his son Isaac when an angel stops him just in time. It is one of Caravaggio's rare landscapes, and his last before he turned to darker, more intimate treatments.
Did you know?
- It is in the Uffizi.
- The attitudes of Abraham and Isaac are unusual for the religious iconography of the time.
- The scene comes from Genesis.
Based on the French Wikipedia article Le Sacrifice d'Isaac (Le Caravage, Florence) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
