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St Augustine Sacrificing to a Manichaean Idol (?)
Also titled Augustinus offert aan een afgod der Manicheeërs (?)
c. 1480
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 118 cm x width 89.5
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
A lamb and a goat are sacrificed to a golden idol in a temple in the heart of a Late Gothic town. The kneeling priest might be St Augustine, the Church Father who in his youth had embraced Manichaeism. However, after converting to Christianity, he fervently refuted this once widespread early religion. Made in Brussels, the panel probably was part of an altarpiece or series of paintings featuring scenes from Augustine’s life.
