| 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. |
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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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| 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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http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=47452
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| Copyright Source: | http://www.yorckproject.de |
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| Copyright Permission: | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike 3.0 License. In short: you are free to use and to share the file for non-commercial purposes under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it only under a license compatible with this one. For uses other than the above, contact the Divinity Library at divref@vanderbilt.edu. |
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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 January 22, 2021]. Original source: http://www.yorckproject.de. |
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| Record Number: | 47452
Last Updated: 2020-12-28 09:34:40
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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