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Scenes from the Life of King Nebuchadnezzar

Scenes from the Life of King Nebuchadnezzar






Date : near 1472

Sizes : 175 cm x 62 cm
Material : Tempera on canvas
Acquisition : Gift of James L. Loeb (1908)
Item 13 on 27
Italian Painting
Painting

Area related
Marches (Italy)

Description   

This cassone panel treats three episodes from the book of Daniel. In the first scene the Babylonian king has summoned wise men to interpret his dreams. In the second, Nebuchadnezzar is driven from Babylon, and in the third he is shown eating grass "like oxen," as one of his dreams had foretold.
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