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Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem is a 1630 painting by Rembrandt. It is one of the most renowned works of his Leiden period. It is one of the most renowned works of his Leiden period. Reception
Jeremiah was guided by God to proclaim that the nation of Judah would suffer famine, foreign conquest, plunder, and captivity in a land of strangers. [19] Horace Vernet, Jeremiah on the Ruins of Jerusalem (1844) According to Jeremiah 1:2–3, Yahweh called Jeremiah to prophesy in about 626 BC, [14] about five years before Josiah's famous ...
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The prophet Jeremiah lamenting the fall of Jerusalem, engraving by Gustave Doré, 1866. A jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in verse, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a prophecy of society's imminent downfall.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem: 1630: Oil on panel: 58.3 x 46.6: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: Daniel and Cyrus Before the Idol Bel: 1633: Oil on panel: 23.4 x 30.1: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles A Young Woman (Esther? Bathsheba? Judith?) at her Toilet: 1633: Oil on canvas: 110.5 x 94.3: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Abraham ...
The person of Jeremiah is imagined as lost in anguished meditation. Although the painting portrays Jeremiah as lamenting over the Destruction of Jerusalem, critics [who?] have interpreted the figure as a self-portrait by Michelangelo, with the artist lamenting over the weight of his sins. Or perhaps Michelangelo is bemoaning his situation being ...
Thomas Tallis set the first lesson, and second lesson, of Tenebrae on Maundy Thursday between 1560, and 1569: "when the practice of making musical settings of the Holy Week readings from the Book of Jeremiah enjoyed a brief and distinguished flowering in England (the practice had developed on the continent during the early 15th century)".
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem: 1630: Oil on panel: 58.3 x 46.6: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: Saint Peter in prison: 1631: Oil on panel: 59.1 x 47.8: Israel Museum, Jerusalem An Old Scholar Near a Window in a Vaulted Room: 1631: Oil on panel: 60.8 x 47.3: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm An Old Woman Reading, Probably the Prophetess Hannah ...