Légende

Lamech kills his son, and Noah is warned of the flood, c1320-1330. Old Testament scenes. Above left: Lamech beats his son to death with his bow, after Lamech has returned from the thicket where he found Cain, (above right), lying pierced by an arrow. Cain had been cutting firewood by improperly mutilating a living oak; his billhook lies on the ground. Below left: Noah uses an adze to build the Ark. Below right: God warns him of the flood. From the Holkham Bible Picture Book, biblical and apocryphal stories in Norman French.

Date

1327

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A15_028

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

48,1Mo (2,7Mo) / 30,1cm x 40,0cm / 3556 x 4728 (300dpi)

Mots clés

weather nature tree England wood people male library job man men religious plant plants country warning French France religion law guy crime occupation tools tool carpentry English color oak oak tree oak trees oak leaf oak leaves death scene medieval Christianity Judaism Jewish wooden deity God depiction location century flooded gesturing profession Bible murder carpenter Biblical miniature concept punishment flood killing injured injury flooding slaughter British Library hand gesture manuscript bad weather punishing hand Gestures Colour Noah Old Testament mediaeval Middle Ages Genesis 14th century Fourteenth Century trees adze Bible scene Book of Genesis illuminated manuscript Lamech murdering retribution slaughtering manuscript Biblical scene Unknown divine retribution Heritage Art Holkham Bible