Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece

Where was this produced?

By Anne le Gassick '24

The Sacrifice of Isaac was produced in Cairo, Egypt, a center for art and craftspeople. It was a cosmopolitan city that traded many spices and luxuries across the Mediterranean. Cairo traded with Italian city states and with populations along the Red Sea, India, southeast Asia, and southern Russia. The Sacrifice of Isaac was one of of the many portable pieces of art that could have been traded or gifted to different religious groups across the Mediterranean who all found meaning in the scene that it represented.

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