Cod: 392025
Belshazzar's Feast
Author : scuola veneta del '700
Period: 18th century
Oil painting on canvas, perfectly restored, depicting: "Belshazzar's Feast"; Venetian school of the 18th century. On the wall, in the upper left, there is an inscription: "mene mene tekel upharsin" The words written on the wall by a divine hand: "mene mene tekel upharsin" mean: numbered, numbered, weighed, divided “God has counted the days of your reign and put an end to it”. You have been weighed on the scale and found wanting. Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. The Bible never identifies what language the words were in. The writing on the wall proved true. In fact, it proved fatal for the dissolute Belshazzar. Just as Daniel had said, the kingdom of Babylon was divided between the Medes and Persians, and it happened that very night. Belshazzar was killed and his kingdom passed to Darius the Mede. The appearance of mene mene tekel upharsin on the king's wall reminds us that whatever we sow we will reap! cm. 109 x 86 (canvas cm. 93 x 70) frame contemporary to the painting