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Kaïn bouwt de stad Henoch

Driven out as a wanderer, Cain settles in the land of Nod and builds a city, naming it Enoch after his son (Genesis 4). By the Dutch printmaker Crispijn van de Passe, held in the Rijksmuseum.

Kaïn bouwt de stad Henoch by Crispijn van de Passe depicting Genesis 4
View full resolutionPublic domain via Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Object number RP-P-1922-290.Source

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Portrait of Crispijn van de Passe

About Crispijn van de Passe

1564-1637 · Dutch

Crispijn van de Passe the Elder was a Dutch engraver and founder of a four-generation dynasty of printmakers; his biblical series — including the Liber Genesis and Life of Christ — circulated across Protestant and Catholic Europe alike.