A figure from Veronese's Rape of Europa was the basis for a woman on the right side of this painting who lets liquid spill from a golden vessel she is holding.
A figure from Veronese's Rape of Europa was the basis for a woman on the right side of this painting who lets liquid spill from a golden vessel she is holding. The artist accidentally mistranscribed an inscription in this painting organizing the letters in columns rather than right to left. The central figure's right arm knocks over a holy silver chalice that was stolen from the Jewish Temple and blasphemously filled with wine. The main figure wears small crescent-moon earrings and a bejeweled turban topped by a crown. Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel gave the artist the Aramaic text "MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN" that was used as the mystical inscription drawn by a floating hand in this painting based on a scene from the Book of Daniel. Featuring several figures based on the artist's studies of Jews in Amsterdam, for 10 points, name this Rembrandt painting showing a Babylonian king disturbed by writing on the wall.
A figure from Veronese's Rape of Europa was the basis for a woman on the right side of this painting who lets liquid spill from a golden vessel she is holding.
{Belshazzar's Feast}