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Border with the People Demanding Daniel from Cyrus

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Flemish Illuminator · 1483–1561

Artist

One of the most celebrated painters of Flanders in the 1500s, Simon Bening was hailed by Portuguese art critic Francisco da Hollanda as the greatest master of illumination in all of Europe. In addition to producing books for powerful aristocrats such as Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, Bening worked for a group of international royal patrons including Emperor Charles V and Don Fernando, the Infan

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Date: about 1525–1530
Medium: Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf
Culture: Flemish
Department: Manuscripts
Institution: Getty Museum

An angry mob approaches the palace of King Cyrus to demand that the prophet Daniel be thrown into the lions' den as punishment for killing a dragon that the people had worshipped as a god. The king, having been accused of turning against his own people to become a Jew, gives in to the crowd and delivers Daniel. Medieval Christians saw the reluctant Cyrus turning a righteous man over to seemingly certain death as an Old Testament prefiguration of the New Testament story of Pilate and Jesus, seen on the facing page.

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