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SARGENT, John Singer: Artworks on the subject Miscellaneous Messianic era, The: Israel and the Law (C. 1903-09) Preliminary relief of crucifixion (1897-99) Artwork:
Messianic era, The: Israel and the Law
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Date:
C. 1903-09
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Oil on canvas
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Royal Academy of Arts, London
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In "Israel and the Law" Sargent reworked the conventional iconography of the lawgiving on Mount Sinai. In Sargent's rendering, the recipient of the Law is not Moses but the child Israel, and the action in the image is not the solemn handing over of stone tablets but an intimate moment in which God is engaged in teaching the child from a
scroll. (Sally M. Promey)
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