| Title: | Joseph sold into slavery |
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| Notes: | The story of Joseph has been at the heart of the Christian understanding of Christ's own story of betrayal, rejection, and eventual ascent to the Godhead. Overbeck's painting animatedly explores the betrayal in Joseph's story. On the left of the canvas is a portrayal of the slaughtering of the ram, whose blood pours out, staining Joseph's robe -- just as Christ's blood was spilled. The sale of Joseph into slavery involves the transfer of coin, as did Judas's own betrayal of Christ for 30 pieces of silver.
From The Yorck Project. |
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| Date: | 1816 |
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| Artist: | Overbeck, Johann Friedrich, 1789-1869 |
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| Building: | Alte Nationalgalerie
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| Object/Function: | Painting |
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| City/Town: | Berlin
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| Country: | Germany
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| Scripture: | Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28
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| Person as Subject: | Joseph, the son of Jacob (Biblical figure)
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| Lectionary links: | AProp14
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| General Subject: | Slavery
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| Library of Congress Subject: | Christian art and symbolism
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| ICONCLASS Number: | 71B341
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| Copyright Source: | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedrich_Overbeck_002.jpg |
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| Copyright Permission: | Please visit the URL in the Copyright Source field on this page for details about reusing this image. |
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| Attribution: | Overbeck, Johann Friedrich, 1789-1869. Joseph sold into slavery, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=47452 [retrieved April 20, 2021]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedrich_Overbeck_002.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 47452
Last Updated: 2021-02-26 13:19:25
Record Created: 2006-10-10 00:00:00 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
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Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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