Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The writing is on the wall for Belshazzar

The writing is on the wall for Belshazzar

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Original – Rembrandt painted a scene from the Bible for this work: the moment at King Belshazzar's feast when God wrote that the regal hand had erred when using sacred vessels to blasphemously serve wine. The inscription reads "God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; you have been weighed in the balances and found wanting; your kingdom is given to the Medes and Persians", even though Rembrandt messed up the Hebrew, writing in columns, rather than right to left.

Reason

Excellent scan of superb painting

Articles in which this image appears

Belshazzar's Feast (Rembrandt) + 2 others

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Rembrandt

• Support as nominator – SchroCat (talk) 08:02, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Great find. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 08:09, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support, quite High Encyclopedic Value. — Cirt (talk) 09:34, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support, one of my favs. Brandmeister^talk 13:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support, a fine scan indeed! ~ Röbin Liönheart (talk) 16:58, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Jobas (talk) 19:55, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Tremonist (talk) 13:03, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Great quality and interesting image, EV--Godot13 (talk) 19:34, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support -- DreamSparrow ^Chat 14:35, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Rembrandt-Belsazar.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:54, 15 October 2015 (UTC)