The dream of Jacob
Gabino Amaya Cacho
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Original Title:El Sueño de Jacob -
Date:2009; Spain -
Dimensions:122 x 195 cm
The dream of Jacob
Gabino Amaya Cacho
This work gives us a fragment of the biblical story of one of the patriarchs of the faith, Jacob, inspired by an oil painting by the Spanish Baroque painter José de Ribera, dated 1639 named in the same way "The dream of Jacob". From where Gabino takes the image of Jacob, but to which he adds his dream in itself: angels descending from heaven to earth.
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