The Sacrifice of Isaac was painted by Caravaggio in 1617-1619 under the influence of the renaissance. During this period, especially, religious artworks were very common as this was before the ideas of the enlightenment even appeared. Here, sacrifice is portrayed in a dark sense in the practice of human sacrifice. More over sympathy is felt for the victim of the sacrifice with the appearance of an angel to save him. This sets a different view to sacrifice in painting, especially for religion, as an almost foolish or unnecessary. This shows that people will follow their god, or gods, blindly, with the utmost devotion of faith.
The painting itself agrees and disagrees with the standards of the time. This painting makes perfect use of colors and the use of light and shadow. But it does not follow the ideals of symmetry as we can see as Abraham, Isaac and the angel take up the center, bottom, and right side of the painting, while the upper right side has nothing significant to balance them.
(What the Bible says about...)
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