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Giovanni Battista Franco
Melchizedek Offering Bread and Wine to Abraham1554-1561

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Engraving of a crowded outdoor sacrificial scene with robed and nude figures, trumpeters, a bull on an altar, and a lion in the foreground

Giovanni Battista Franco, Melchizedek Offering Bread and Wine to Abraham, 1554-1561, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Giovanni Battista Franco
Title
Melchizedek Offering Bread and Wine to Abraham
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
1554-1561
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 × 17 7/8 in. (27.94 × 45.4 cm) Image: 10 1/2 × 16 1/4 in. (26.67 × 41.28 cm)
Credit Line
Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest
Accession Number
M.88.91.21
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. Mannerist Prints: International Style in the Sixteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.