feast

  • Belshazzar’s feast (from 1634 until 1639)

    Belshazzar’s feast (from 1634 until 1639)

    Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)

    A ghostly hand etches fiery letters across the banquet hall as golden goblets slip from trembling fingers. The revelry dies mid-laugh—royal faces frozen between arrogance and terror. Babylon’s last feast shatters beneath divine judgment scrawled in light upon the wall.