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The expressions "splitting the baby" or "cutting the baby in half" can be used to describe a split award (usually accompanied by a split costs award) in the most for a heavy-handed, costs-insensitive suit (such as entailing multiple hearings and disproportionate spending on both sides) for a relatively simple compromise.
The Judgement of Solomon is an oil on panel painting by Flemish painter Frans Floris. Painted right after Floris' return from his trip to Italy, the painting depicts a biblical scene, the Judgment of Solomon. In that story, King Solomon of Israel ruled between two women who both claimed to be the mother of a child. Solomon revealed their true ...
The episode is one of the most well known that illustrates the famed "wisdom of Solomon". The scene takes place in a very dark interior, where the figures are dimly illuminated, in a typical chiaroscuro. Solomon, seated on his throne, is dressed in red and wears his small crown upon a turban. The dead child lies at his feet.
Pharaoh's daughter is a main figure in a three-act oratorio called Solomon written by the composer George Frideric Handel. It was composed "between May 5th and June 13th 1748 and it was first performed at Covent Garden on March 17th 1749". [28] The first act deals with the dedication of the temple and Solomon's marriage to Pharaoh's daughter.
The ending of the story is an homage to the biblical story of Solomon's Judgement, where King Solomon solves a dispute between two mothers over the ownership of a baby by suggesting it be split down the middle, and one half be given to each woman. One of the mothers protests this decision, and so King Solomon declares that she must be the true ...
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Self-portrait, Nicolas Poussin (1649; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin). Towards the end of the 1640s two major figures became patrons of Poussin [1] [2] The first of these was Paul Fréart de Chantelou, a friend of the artist, secretary to François Sublet de Noyers and collector of French art, whose commissions from Poussin included The Seven Sacraments and a self-portrait now in the Louvre [3] [4 ...
Rehoboam (/ ˌ r iː ə ˈ b oʊ. əm /; Hebrew: רְחַבְעָם , Rəḥaḇʿām, transl. "an enlarged people"; Greek: Ροβοάμ, Roboam; Latin: Roboam) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the first monarch of the Kingdom of Judah after the split of the united Kingdom of Israel.