Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing, tore it into twelve pieces, and said to Jeroboam, “Take ten pieces for yourself".

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Jan Saenredam (publisher)
,
Abraham Bloemaert (after)

Date

1604

Period

17 century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
The prophet Ahijah has torn his cloak into 12 pieces and hands ten pieces to Jeroboam. The torn cloak symbolises the division of the Jewish people. Jeroboam became king of ten of the 12 tribes. The print has a Latin text in the lower margin.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Jan Saenredam VIAF RKD Wikidata, Abraham Bloemaert VIAF RKD Wikidata
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 272 x 198 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-KB-2-1-A
Description
Subjects religious symbolism AAT, figures (representations)
Tags Old Testament Iconclass, trees Iconclass, rocks Iconclass, male sex; man Iconclass, old man Iconclass, standing figure Iconclass, sitting figure Iconclass, youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass, story of Solomon Iconclass, Jeroboam king designate of Israel (1 Kings 11:26-40) Iconclass, meeting of Jeroboam and the prophet Ahijah; Ahijah rends his garment in twelve pieces, ten of which he gives to Jeroboam Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-KB-2-1-A
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11557/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-KB-2-1-A
Vlaamse Kunstcollectie - EN

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