Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin Painting

Many of my paintings are inspired by visions I had sleeping , in day dreams or meditation. The name Balthazar came into my attention in one of this dreams, and made me research about it. This is how I remembered about the old biblical facts and also about Rembrandt's Belshazzar's Feast, which made me decide to do my own version of the perceived story. Balthazar is the greek version of the name Belshazzar. The king Belshazzar was feasting , eating and drinking from the sacred Jewish religious plates and cups captured from them. Drinking , he had a vision of a hand writing on the wall the words: Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin. The king , frightened, called for the prophet Daniel to translate the vision. Daniel reads the words, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN, and interprets them for the king: MENE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; TEKEL, you have been weighed and found wanting; and PERES, the kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. "Then Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel was clothed in purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made ... that he should rank third in the kingdom; [and] that very night Belshazzar the Chaldean (Babylonian) king was killed, and Darius the Mede received the kingdom."

Painting:Acrylic on Other

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 19.7 H x 0.4 D in

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