The Artist as Exegete: Picturing the Sacrifice of Isaac

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Karen Bowden Cooper, Curator of the Kelso Bible Lands Museum and Lecturer in Hebrew, PTS
The binding of Isaac will serve as the focus of this exploration of the ways artists have represented the biblical world and key biblical texts. After examining Genesis 22 and its interpretive traditions, we will consider elements of the story that artists have chosen to represent and a range of other factors: audience and purpose, materials and tools, prevailing stylistic and iconographic norms, physical setting, and the influence of the 2nd Commandment. Our exploration will take us from the synagogues of ancient Syria-Palestine, to the great mosaics of medieval Sicily, to the workshops of individual artists of the 15th to 20th centuries. / Tuesday evenings, October 23 – November 13, 2012 / 7:00-8:30 p.m. / $65 / 0.6 CEUs

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