Mostaert G., Molenaer C., painting – Scenes from the life of Jacob in the Book of Genesis: Jacob
wrestling the Angel; Jacob removing the stone from the well to water Laban's
sheep; and The Dream of Jacob's Ladder (16th cent.); Jacob
Wrestling with an Angel (16th cent.). Depiction of the circumstances and mechanism of the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF) injury based on the description in the Book of Genesis:
25 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.26 And when he saw that he could not pre vail against him, he struck against the hollow of his thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was put out of joint, as he was wrestling with him.…33 Therefore do the children of Israel not eat the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day; because he struck against the hollow of Jacob's thigh on the sinew that shrank. (1922LeeserI, Genesis (Bereshit) 32:25-26,33)
More about the plot in our work: Ninth month, eleventh day (2024АрхиповСВ. Девятый месяц, одиннадцатый день).
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Gillis Mostaert and Cornelis Molenaer – Scenes from the life of Jacob in the Book of Genesis: Jacob wrestling the Angel; Jacob removing the stone from the well to water Laban's sheep; and The Dream of Jacob's Ladder (16th cent.); original in sothebys.com collection (CC0 – public domain, color correction). |
External links
Gillis Mostaert, Cornelis Molenaer. Scenes from the life of Jacob in the Book of Genesis: Jacob wrestling the Angel; Jacob removing the stone from the well to water Laban's sheep; and The Dream of Jacob's Ladder (16th cent.). Jan de Maere, based on digital images, proposes that the figures were painted by Gillis Mostaert and the landscape by Cornelis Molenaer. sothebys.com.
Leeser I. The twenty-four books of the Holy Scriptures. Carefully translated according to the Massoretic text, on the basis of the English version after the best Jewish authorities and supplied with short explanatory notes by Isaac Leeser. New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1922. [archive.org]
Архипов С.В. Девятый месяц, одиннадцатый день: Рассуждение о XXXII главе книги Бытие; 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. Йоэнсуу: Издание Автора, 2024. Google Play , Google Books
Authors & Affiliations
Cornelis Molenaer (ca. 1540-1589) was a Flemish painter. wikipedia.org
Gillis Mostaert (ca. 1528/9 – 1598) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. wikipedia.org
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Gillis Mostaert (ca. 1580) Author – anonymous; original in the wikimedia.org collection (CC0 – public domain, color correction) |
Keywords
ligamentum capitis femoris, ligamentum teres, ligament of head of femur, image, damage, injury, mechanism, illustration, Bible
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