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Elijah Fed By Ravens
Artist: Guercino
 1620    Painting

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This picture is one of a number of works Guercino made for the papal legate of Ferrara, Cardinal Jacopo Serra (1570–1623), an early and enthusiastic patron of the artist. It was painted in 1620, before Guercino travelled to Rome. By 1655 the painting had been acquired by the powerful Barberini family in Rome and, remarkably, it still retains its Barberini frame.

The painting is oil o cancas, measuring 195 × 156.5 cm.  It is housed in The National Gallery.

Elijah Fed by the Ravens
Artist: Paolo Fiammingo
 1589    Painting

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1 Kings 17:2-16.  New International Version

2 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 3 “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4 You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”

5 So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.