Cain and Abel Offering Gifts

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Cain and Abel Offering Gifts

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Master of Jean de Mandeville

French Illuminator · 1350–1370

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The Master of Jean de Mandeville, an anonymous French illuminator, is thus known for his work on a manuscript of *Mandeville's Travels* now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. A prolific court artist, he worked in France in the circle of King John the Good and King Charles V from around 1350 to 1370. He often painted the costumes of his slight figures in grisaille and rendered the figures' faces

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Date
about 1360–1370
Medium
Tempera colors, gold, and ink
Culture
French
Department
Manuscripts
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
501bd93d-9595-408e-9138-fa16d7395456

Kneeling before a pink altar, Cain and Abel offer the fruits of their labor in sacrifice to God: a sheaf of wheat from Cain and a lamb from Abel. The repetition of the figure of God in the arc of heaven above allows the artist to show that God was pleased with Abel's sacrifice and dissatisfied with Cain's. From the left, God smiles down diagonally on Abel at the right. The figure of God to the right covers his face in displeasure as the bearded Cain at the left vainly looks up for approval. Jealousy over God's preference for Abel led Cain to kill him, committing the Bible's first murder.

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