David and Bathsheba's biblical tale is both dramatic and ambiguous: A strong man spots a stunning stranger and tells his men to call her. She conceives a child. The man makes a feeble attempt to hide it, but in the end, he kills the woman's husband, and they...
Fortune and Reputation of an Umbrian Painter in Rome on the Threshold of the High Renaissance Covering the wall of a cardinal's audience room, Francesco Salviati's fresco painting of the biblical story of Bathsheba, who is spied upon by King David while taking a bath (Rome, Palazzo Ricci-...
Larger image.Other PaintingsDante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882), "King David" (1858-1864), watercolor on paper, 279 x 127 mm, from "The Seed of David". Tate Gallery, London. Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau, David the Shepherd Triumphant (1895, astride a lion) Ernst Josephson, David and Saul ...
David and Bathsheba were lovers from childhood. Their marriage was aborted thru trickery so that the latter adultery was a symbolic consummation. Berenice, two thousand years ago, was the most beautiful woman of her age, the last queen of Israel.展开...
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DepartmentJongDepartmentInformaworldKonsthistorisk Tidskrift/journal of Art HistoryDe Jong, Jan L., 2010. Spying and Speculating: Francesco Salviati's Painting of King David and Bathsheba in the Palazzo Ricci-Sacchetti in Rome. Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History, Vol.79, n.2, pp.91...
Covering the wall of a cardinal's audience room, Francesco Salviati's fresco painting of the biblical story of Bathsheba, who is spied upon by King David while taking a bath (Rome, Palazzo Ricci-Sacchetti, 1553-1554), raises questions about its propriety and meaning. It is argued that eroti...
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The article discusses the strange behavior of the literary character King David in an episode of the death of Bathsheba's child from the Bible which presents him as a man whose faith makes him resilient in times of adversity. It is asserted that David supplicates God for the life of the ...