Belshazzar's Feast is a painting by Rembrandt van Rijn created in about 1635. The source for the painting is the story of Belshazzar and the writing on the wall in the Old Testament Book of Daniel.
According to Daniel 5, King Belshazzar of Babylon held a banquet for a thousand of his nobles. As they drank wine from the sacred vessels of Solomon's Temple, "they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone." Then, out of now...
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Belshazzar's Feast is a painting by Rembrandt van Rijn created in about 1635. The source for the painting is the story of Belshazzar and the writing on the wall in the Old Testament Book of Daniel.
According to Daniel 5, King Belshazzar of Babylon held a banquet for a thousand of his nobles. As they drank wine from the sacred vessels of Solomon's Temple, "they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone." Then, out of nowhere, a man's hand appeared and started to write with what seemed like light. The characters were in Hebrew, a language unfamiliar to Belshazzar, and proclaimed that, "Whoever shall read this writing and show me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have of gold around his neck, and shall be the third ruler of the kingdom". Many wise men tried to decipher the mysterious writing on the wall but without success. The king became frustrated that the meaning could not be discovered.
The queen suggested that he employ the...
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