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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The episode represented in this painting is taken from the book of Daniel 5. 1-6; 5. 25-28. Belshazzar, King of Babylon, used the sacred goblets looted from the Temple of Jerusalem to serve wine at a banquet. A divine hand appeared and wrote three words on the wall that can be transliterated as 'mene, thekel, upharsin'. Only the prophet Daniel could interpret their meaning, which referred to the punishment of Belshazzar for blasphemy and to the fall of his kingdom. This work was probably commissioned by the merchant Juan de Segovia from the Castilian painter Juan Carreño de Miranda. | Subjects: | religion (Belshazzar's feast) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Carreño de Miranda, Juan (Spanish painter, 1614-1685) Æ Previously attributed to Rizi, Francisco (Spanish painter and scenographer, 1614-1685) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9035... | Go to resource |
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