Solomon Worshipping an Idol

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Solomon Worshipping an Idol

Hans BurgkmairLinkedCulture matchlcp-865d3b814d14

Date
c. 1519
Medium
Woodcut
Department
European Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
55625

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Hans Burgkmair's debt to the Italian Renaissance is evident in this border, filled with grotesques and frolicking nudes. Solomon's tastes were similarly exotic: his wives, many of them foreign, included 700 princesses and 300 concubines (I Kings 11: 1-13). This woodcut emphasizes the amorous old king's helplessness in the face of female blandishments: the false god he worships resembles the crafty pagan wife who convinces him to commit this sacrilege. Germany, Europe

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Gift of Herschel V. Jones, 1926

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