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Cigoli: Sacrifice of Isaac

Artist



Alternative names	Lodovico Cardi
Description	Italian painter, architect, sculptor, drawer and poet
Date of birth/death	22 September 1559	18 June 1613 / 8 June 1613
Location of birth/death	Villa Castelvecchi di Cigoli	Rome
Work location	Florence (1568–1604); Rome (1604–1613)
Authority file	: Q928350 VIAF: 29804962 ISNI: 0000000107986069 ULAN: 500115264 LCCN: n81106343 WGA: c/cigoli WorldCat

Title

English: The Sacrifice of Isaac

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Description

Binding of Isaac

Date

circa 1607

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 175.5 cm (69 in); width: 132.2 cm (52 in)

Collection

Palazzo Pitti (Inventory)

	Native name	Palazzo Pitti
	Parent institution	Gallerie degli Uffizi
	Location	Florence, Italy
	Coordinates	43° 45′ 54.55″ N, 11° 15′ 00.03″ E
	Established	1919
	Website	polomuseale.firenze.it/en/musei/pitti
	Authority file	: Q29286 VIAF: 126657011 ULAN: 500304793 LCCN: n79063216 NLA: 35303963 OSM: 1637338 WorldCat

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Italy

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CIGOLI

(b. 1559, Villa Castelvecchi di Cigoli, d. 1613, Roma)

The Sacrifice of Isaac c. 1607 Oil on canvas, 175,5 x 132,2 cm Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

Cigoli's picture depicts one of the most dramatic moments in the Old Testament (Genesis 22: 1-14), where the Lord tests Abraham's faith by asking him to sacrifice his only son Isaac. Just as Abraham is about to slit Isaac's throat an angel miraculously appears and points to a ram, tangled in a thicket, that can be sacrificed instead. Cigoli shows the moment at which the angel intervenes, pulling back Abraham's arm as he points to the ram. According to Cigoli's nephew, Giovanni Battista Cardi, the picture was painted while his uncle was working for Cardinal Pompeo Arrigoni in Frascati just outside Rome. Cigoli, a Florentine, is documented in Rome between 1606-07, a date which accords well with the style of The Sacrifice of Isaac. There are several preparatory studies for the painting, one of which is on the verso of a drawing for Massimo Massimi's Ecce Homo of 1607, making it safe to assume that Cigoli was working on both pictures at the same time.

Although The Sacrifice of Isaac was painted in Rome, the composition clearly recalls the Florentine tradition of Lorenzo Ghiberti and Andrea del Sarto. Isaac's sensuous nude body, however, reflects the artist's first-hand experience of classical sculpture. Despite the inherent suspense of the narrative, the picture itself lacks dramatic tension. Abraham's massive red tunic serves as a foil for Isaac's unblemished adolescent body, shifting the emphasis to the work's more lascivious characteristics. When the picture was criticised for its sexually evocative content by a visitor to Arrigoni's villa, the cardinal made an eloquent defence of the artist and the painting. The emotions evoked, he said, were the result of Cigoli's excellence as a painter; any stimulation was the fault of the viewer.

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Author: CIGOLI Title: The Sacrifice of Isaac Time-line: 1551-1600 School: Italian Form: painting

Type: religious

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