Belshazzar's Feast is an oil painting completed by the Dutch artist
Rembrandt in 1635. Drawing on the Biblical
Book of Daniel, it depicts the
Neo-Babylonian king
Belshazzar holding a feast using sacred vessels looted from the
Temple in Jerusalem;
God, angered by this blasphemy, has inscribed the following
writing on the wall: "God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; your kingdom is given to the Medes and Persians". This painting, which has been seen as Rembrandt's attempt to establish himself as a painter of large,
baroque history paintings, is in the
National Gallery, London.Painting:
Rembrandt
Belshazzar's Feast is an oil painting completed by the Dutch artist
Rembrandt in 1635. Drawing on the Biblical
Book of Daniel, it depicts the
Neo-Babylonian king
Belshazzar holding a feast using sacred vessels looted from the
Temple in Jerusalem;
God, angered by this blasphemy, has inscribed the following
writing on the wall: "God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; your kingdom is given to the Medes and Persians". This painting, which has been seen as Rembrandt's attempt to establish himself as a painter of large,
baroque history paintings, is in the
National Gallery, London.Painting:
Rembrandt