Isaac Blesses Jacob

These two paintings are companion pieces and they offer an exceptionally interesting example of the combination of thematic and symbolic correspondences and symmetries, blending harmoniously with skillfully setup, compositional complementarities.
The chromatics of the two paintings also shows similarity, in its red and blue dominants, which are characteristic of the style of the Venetian school, enriched with golden reflexes. Contemplating the two companion pieces, one is invited to witness a spectacular display of painterly virtuosity that ultimately results in an impression of great complexity, with chromatic beauty enhancing psychological interpretation, anatomic perception and realistic representation, while the documentation required by the subject is combined with surprising allegorical and compositional solutions.
©Dana Roxana Hrib, European Art Gallery Guidebook, Second edition, Sibiu 2011.