Jacob's Dream

1557-1558 (Renaissance)

237 cm 224.6 cm 3.5 cm

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As recounted in the Old Testament book of Genesis, on his way to Haran, Jacob lay down in the wilderness to sleep, resting his head on a stone. He dreamed of angels ascending and descending a stairway or ladder to heaven (here depicted as a monumental Renaissance-style stairca...

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Guglielmo del Tovaglia or Marsilio degli Albizi, Florence, 1558; Justice James A. Murnaghan, Dublin, 1930 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1973, by gift.
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