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Miniature Excised from a Compendium in historiae genealogia Christi by Peter Poitiers: The Sacrifice of Isaac

William de Brailes

Cleveland Museum of Art

Oval-shaped illustration with a pointed bottom. The oval shape has multiple layers of borders in blue, green, red, and beige. Inside the oval shape is another oval shape with a gold background. In the gold oval, a man with long blue hair and a blue cloth wrapped around his waist and left shoulder holds a knife in his right hand and a ram in his left hand. The man stands on green ground with a brown hill behind him. Behind the man to the right is a boy lying on a white altar with a blue and white patterned border. Above the man is an angel with white wings and a blue head covering holding a sword. The background of the image is beige.

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604 × 900 px
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