#prophet daniel

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Daniel Interpreting to Belshazzar the Writing on the Wall

Artist: Benjamin West (English, born America), 1738–1820

Date: 1775

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Description

" ... You shall be banished from human society     as you are forced to dwell with wild beasts     and feed on grass as the oxen do. Seven years shall pass over you     until you have learned that the Most High rules over the kingdom of men     and gives it to whomever he wishes.”

Daniel 4:29

"𝓓𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓮𝓵 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼"

𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞,

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞.

𝐈𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐰, 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝.

I do love the vibes of Eastern Orthodox art a lot, especially icons. I've looked through a decent number over the years for research purposes and usually none really grab at me. Overall something about the eyes and noses just doesn't call to me.

I think it's the same genre of reason those anime girls with the big eyes and tiny noses just aren't my jam.

Anyway! I did find one I enjoyed a lot in looking to answer this! I present:

Prophet Daniel by Andrei Rubelev.

Now, I know this might be a total cop out. This figure is mostly the plaster behind it. But that's the part I find most erotic I think. Immediately as I looked through an online gallery of his work, this one captured me.

The obliteration of identity, of original features. Now most of what you can see is the outline of the figure, the halo, the remains of cloth wrapped around him.

Everything decays. Even religious icons. Even art.

I find decay intensely erotic. I think decay is a sort of eroticism that's the other side of the coin of viscera and gore. Blood is this heady, fast, feverish eroticism. It pulls at your heart in a way that spurs it on. Rot instead invokes this slow, creeping eroticism.

It reminds me of one of my favorite monologues from one of my favorite movies (The Green Knight). Especially this quote; "This verdigris will overtake your swords and your coins and your battlements and, try as you might, all you hold dear will succumb to it."

Anyway, all of this to say, 10/10.

The Vision of Prophet Daniel

Greek Icon

As I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, flying swiftly touched me at the time of the evening sacrifice.

And he instructed me, and spoke to me, and said: O Daniel, I am now come forth to teach thee, and that thou mightest understand.

From the beginning of thy prayers the word came forth: and I am come to shew it to thee, because thou art a man of desires: therefore do thou mark the word, and understand the vision.

Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the saint of saints may be anointed.

Know thou therefore, and take notice: that from the going forth of the word, to build up Jerusalem again, unto Christ the prince, there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: and the street shall be built again, and the walls in straitness of times.

And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people with their leader that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation. Daniel 9:21-26

The Archangel Gabriel appears to the Prophet Daniel -