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Border with the People Demanding Daniel from Cyrus
Simon Beningabout 1525 - 1530
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
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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- Title: Border with the People Demanding Daniel from Cyrus
- Creator: Simon Bening
- Date Created: about 1525 - 1530
- Location Created: Bruges, Belgium
- Physical Dimensions: Leaf: 16.8 × 11.4 cm (6 5/8 × 4 1/2 in.)
- Type: Folio
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf on parchment
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 83.ML.115.174
- Culture: Flemish
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. Ludwig IX 19, fol. 174
- Creator Display Name: Simon Bening (Flemish, about 1483 - 1561)
- Classification: Manuscripts (Documents)
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