The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek
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The Canon of the Mass names both men: Abraham's sacrifice, then the bread and wine of Melchizedek, high priest. The National Gallery reads the offering as the Eucharist prefigured. Abraham is still in armour, leaning to take bread from a priest's hands. The two men lock eyes over it, as though each senses it means more than food (Genesis 14:18).
This is the modello; weavers turned it into wool for the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia's convent in Madrid.
The tapestries hung in the church at Corpus Christi, the king in his tribune. The Poor Clares sat behind a grille.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, object record 1958.4.1 · Alexandra Libby, "The Solomonic Ambitions of Isabel Clara Eugenia in Rubens's The Triumph of the Eucharist Tapestry Series," JHNA vol. 7, no. 2 (2015) · Museo Nacional del Prado, exhibition materials on the same tapestry cycle · Roman Missal, Ordinary of the Mass, Canon Missae, 'Supra quae propitio'
But Melchisedech, the king of Salem, bringing forth bread and wine, for he was the priest of the most high God,
Genesis 14:18 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 16,208 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.