# The Sacrifice of Isaac [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Black and red chalk, 415 x 290 mm ## Commentary This drawing of The Sacrifice of Isaac is probably connected to a planned commission for a double tomb of Pope Clement VII and Pope Leo X. While Michelangelo faithfully follows the biblical account, in designing the composition he seems to have had in his mind's eye the bronze reliefs on the same subject by Lorenzo <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/ghiberti/1sacrifj.html'\)" href="/html/g/ghiberti/1sacrifj.html">Ghiberti</a> and Filippo <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/b/brunelle/abraham1.html'\)" href="/html/b/brunelle/abraham1.html">Brunelleschi.</a> ## Related artworks - [A Man Lifting a Boar onto his Shoulder \(verso\)]() - [Abraham - Isaac - Jacob - Judah]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud]() - [Aeneas with a Boy \(recto\)]() - [Allegorical figure]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()