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Offer van Gideon

Gideon sets out his offering on the rock, and the angel of the Lord touches it with the tip of his staff so that fire springs up and consumes it (Judges 7). A work by the Dutch painter Ferdinand Bol.

Offer van Gideon by Ferdinand Bol depicting Judges 7
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About Ferdinand Bol

1616-1680 · Dutch

Ferdinand Bol was one of Rembrandt's most successful pupils and a leading Amsterdam history painter of the mid-seventeenth century whose biblical commissions grace churches and public buildings across the Dutch Republic.

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