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The Old Testament book of Exodus describes how the Jews fled from Egypt and crossed the desert to the land of Israel. Every morning they woke up to find the ground miraculously covered with an edible substance that looked like frost – they called this ‘heavenly bread’ manna and said it tasted like ‘wafers made with honey’ (Exodus 16: 31). Here we see the whole community helping to gather it into pots and jars. The huts in the distance are supposed to represent their tents, pitched in the desert – but the way they are arranged, facing the viewer, creates a backdrop like a stage set for the main action. This panel comes from the predella – the long, horizontal structure at an altarpiece’s base – of a large altarpiece showing the dead Christ lying on his mother’s lap.
Title
The Israelites gathering Manna
Date
probably 1490s
Medium
Tempera on canvas, transferred from wood
Measurements
H 28.9 x W 63.5 cm
Accession number
NG1217
Acquisition method
Bought, 1886
Work type
Painting
