Cain and Abel

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Titiaan (after)
,
Valentin Lefèbvre (etchers)
,
Jacobus van Campen (publisher)

Date

1682

Period

17 century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Cain strikes Abel down with a piece of wood. Abel's smoking sacrifice can be seen in the background. The print is part of a 53-part series of prints after paintings by Titian and Veronese.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Titiaan VIAF RKD Wikidata, Valentin Lefèbvre , Jacobus van Campen
Types etching , reproductive prints AAT
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 331 x 229 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2015-JN-3
Description
Subjects religious symbolism AAT, figures (representations) , landscapes
Tags Old Testament Iconclass, brothers (second degree family relationships) Iconclass, male sex; man Iconclass, youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass, standing figure Iconclass, lying figure Iconclass, Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve Iconclass, the killing of Abel: Cain slays him with a stone, a club or a jaw-bone, alternatively with a spade or another tool as weapon Iconclass, Abel's death Iconclass, threatening behaviour, challenging Iconclass, open fire (in general) Iconclass, smoke Iconclass, Sacrifice Iconclass, crime Iconclass, murderer Iconclass, mountains Iconclass, rocks Iconclass, clothes, costume Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2015-JN-3
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/9012/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2015-JN-3
Vlaamse Kunstcollectie - EN

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