Month: December 2022

The Sacrifice of Isaac in Jewish Iconography (Part II)

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Starting with the representation of Genesis XXII housed in the Beth Alpha Synagogue, we will analyze how the Book of Jubilees sanctioned a correspondence between the biblical passages of the Sacrifice of Isaac and the Liberation from Egypt. Furthermore, in the figure of Isaac, who appears here in the form of a helpless and frightened child, we will be able to observe the interpretative gap between the mosaic and the exegetical tradition. In numerous texts, in fact, it is the patriarch himself, now an adult and aware, who offers himself spontaneously to the divine plan.

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β€œVERONA MAGICAL CITY 2022: Sacred and Sanctuaries”

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We are pleased to announce to our readers that tomorrow, Sunday 18 December, we will be guests in Verona at Porta Palio on the occasion of the solstice conference Verona magical city, this year dedicated to the theme of Italian sanctuaries between paganism and Christianity.

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Live video: "The snake and the cross", with Paolo Riberi

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Next Wednesday 14 December we will have the pleasure of hosting Paolo Riberi again on our YouTube channel, for the third time in just under two years, for the presentation of his book The serpent and the cross (Lindau 2021). Live streaming starting at 21:30.

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HP Lovecraft's β€œThe Pickman's Model”: dissection by a nightmarish artist

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An analysis of the symbolic substrate - from the catabasis in a truly existing underground Boston to the pre-Islamic folklore of the Ghouls - of the famous story by Howard Phillips Lovecraft Pickman's model (1926), recently adapted into one of the episodes of the TV series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022), directed by director Keith Thomas.

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