The Battle between Jephthah's Army and the Ammonites, from the series the history of Jephthah

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Antonio Tempesta (after)
,
Nicolaes Rijckmans (engravers (printmakers))
,
Claes Jansz. Visscher (publisher)

Date

1643

Period

17 century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Jephthah and his force inflict a heavy defeat on the Ammonites' army and take twenty cities (Ri. 11:33). The battlefield is depicted in the background.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Antonio Tempesta , Nicolaes Rijckmans VIAF RKD Wikidata, Claes Jansz. Visscher
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 215 x 281 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-PD
Description
Subjects history paintings , figures (representations) , landscapes , animal paintings
Tags male sex; man Iconclass, sitting figure Iconclass, Old Testament Iconclass, horse Iconclass, riding a horse, ass, or mule; rider, horseman Iconclass, battle, fighting in general Iconclass, the soldier; the soldier's life Iconclass, the time of Jephthah ~ the book of Judges Iconclass, the story of Jephthah's daughter (Judges 11:29-40) Iconclass, the Ammonites are defeated by Jephthah's army; twenty cities are taken Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-PD
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11764/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-PD
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