The Miracle at Elisha's Grave, from the series Toneel ofte vertooch der Bybelsche historien

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Nicolaes II Visscher (publisher)
,
Pieter Hendriksz. Schut (engravers (printmakers))
,
Nicolaes I Visscher (publisher)

Date

1659

Period

17 century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
During a funeral a band of ransacking Moabites is seen approaching and the corpse is thrown hastily into Elisha's tomb; when it touches Elisha's bones the man comes back to life.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Nicolaes II Visscher , Pieter Hendriksz. Schut , Nicolaes I Visscher
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 67 x 101 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-GB
Description
Subjects religious symbolism AAT, figures (representations) , landscapes
Tags Old Testament Iconclass, story of Elisha (Eliseus) Iconclass, Elisha's bones (2 Kings 13:21) Iconclass, grave, tomb and other grave-forms and grave-markers Iconclass, grave, tomb Iconclass, burial Iconclass, placing the corpse in the coffin Iconclass, Resurrection; 'Ressurrettione' (Ripa) Iconclass, (human) skeleton Iconclass, (human) skull Iconclass, plundering ~ soldiers Iconclass, agricultural implements: spade Iconclass, signs, symbols and motifs in funerary art Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-GB
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11405/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-GB
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