Artist: Lorenzo Monaco
Date: 1408
Size: 66 x 43 cm
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
Technique: Tempera
These four Old Testament prophets are among the masterpieces of Monaco, a leading late Gothic Florentine painter. Each figure holds an identifying attribute. David, holding a psaltery, is considered a direct ancestor of Christ; Moses holds two tablets of the Ten Commandments featuring pseudo-Hebrew script; Abraham prepares to sacrifice his only son Isaac, prefiguring the sacrifice of Christ; and Noah’s ark, the object of his salvation, is symbolically shaped like the church. The original arrangement and function of this group remains unknown.
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