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TITLE: | Belshazzar's Feast |
| ARTIST: | Rembrandt van Rijn | |
| DATE: | c. 1636-38 | |
| MEDIA: | Oil on canvas | |
| SIZE: | 66.5 x 82.5 in | |
| LOCATION: | London, The National Gallery | |
| SCRIPTURE: | Daniel 5 |
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over
against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king
saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and
his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees
smote one against another.
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TITLE: | Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers |
| ARTIST: | Rembrandt van Rijn | |
| DATE: | c. 1640-42 | |
| MEDIA: | Pen and brush | |
| SIZE: | 21 x 32.5 | |
| LOCATION: | Paris, Musee du Louvre | |
| SCRIPTURE: | Genesis 44-45 |
Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me." And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethern...And he said, "I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not greived, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life."
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TITLE: | Jacob's Blessing |
| ARTIST: | Rembrandt van Rijn | |
| DATE: | 1656 | |
| MEDIA: | Oil on canvas | |
| SIZE: | 68.5 x 82 in | |
| LOCATION: | Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Kassel, Germany | |
| SCRIPTURE: | Genesis 48 |
And Joseph said unto his father, "Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head And his father refused, and said, I know it, my sone, I know it; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations."
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TITLE: | The Angel of the Lord Stands in Balaam's Path |
| ARTIST: | Rembrandt van Rijn | |
| DATE: | 1626 | |
| MEDIA: | Oil on panel | |
| SIZE: | 63.5 x 46.5 | |
| LOCATION: | Paris, Musee Cognacq-Jay | |
| SCRIPTURE: | Numbers 22 |
And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff. And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, "What have I done unto thee, that thou has smitten me these three times."
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TITLE: | Supper at Emmaus |
| ARTIST: | Rembrandt van Rijn | |
| DATE: | 1648 | |
| MEDIA: | Oil on canvas | |
| SIZE: | 27.5 x 26.5 in | |
| LOCATION: | Paris, Musee du Louvre | |
| SCRIPTURE: | Luke 24 |
And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called
Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And it came to pass,
that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with
them. But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. And it came to
pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to
them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their
sight. And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he
talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
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