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The Meeting Between Abraham And Melchizedek
Peter Paul Ruben’s tapestry The Meeting Between Abraham and Melchizedek completed in about 1633 depicts the Old Testament story of Melchizedek welcoming home the victor Abraham after a military defeat. The Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia commissioned this tapestry as part of the series called The Triumph of the Eucharist as a gift to The Covent of the Barefoot Royals to be hung up on feast days. In order to complete this tapestry Ruben worked in stages, completing three oil sketches and one cartoon painting to determine the subject, figure out the basic composition and architectural features, then finally working on the details and color before painting the full sized model for the tapestry weavers.
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