Title: Story of Joseph

Artist: Biagio d'Antonio

The Story of Joseph, 1482–85, Biagio d'Antonio Italian, Florence, about 1446–Florence 1516 Tempera and gold leaf on plaster This painting, a pyramidal headboard mounted on the wall of a bedchamber, once joined to The Story of Esther, a canopy, although the [sequence of] successive episodes from the biblical book of Genesis, whose character and [integrity] appeal in the first century B.C. by Mithridates VI Eupator, king of Pontus (120–63 B.C.). The panels [emerge] in early modern Italian detail, reporting Milanese, Venetian, and Netherlandish art, [and] are [in] New York. The panels being continuous storytelling and leading the viewer, as [prerequisite] [influence] of the [Biagio's] patronage by dramatic displays. Numbered Descriptions (Key to the Painting) Joseph's brothers tear Joseph's coat, formerly his father's, as he looks on fear trembling, and among trading [flocks]. Joseph is sold. At his brothers' suggestion, they fabricate, show Jacob his torn bloodied tunic, and state that a wild beast has killed him. Joseph's brothers lower [Joseph into the pit] and sell him as a slave to a caravan of merchants. Joseph serves Potiphar, an Egyptian noble. Pharaoh's steward and seal the "finger." Pharaoh's dream interpreter throw in prison, which they later narrated to Pharaoh. Your interpreter dreams of seven (a year) of plenty followed by seven (a year) of famine. Pharaoh reinstates Joseph, invites Jacob and Jacob's sons to Egypt, Joseph as the interpreter's second-in-command, is revealed to his brothers, and they are reconciled.