Artist: Workshop Of Peter Paul Rubens
Date: 1617
Size: 303 x 234 cm
Museum: National Gallery of Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
The first Book of Kings in the Bible (3:16-28) tells the story of how King Solomon had to pass judgment in a case concerning two prostitutes who lived in the same house and had given birth at the same time. One of the children died shortly afterwards, and now both women claimed the living child as theirs.King Solomon’s wisdom and sense of justice led him to have a sword brought in and to order the living child cloven in two so that the women could share it. This order provoked the desired response in the true mother who gave up her half in the hope of saving the child’s life.The painting
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