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The traditional birthday song Las Mañanitas mentions King David as the original singer in its lyrics. 1622 Thomas Tomkins's choral anthem "When David Heard", about David's response to the death of his son Absalom, is published in the anthology Songs of 1622. [178] 1738 George Frideric Handel's oratorio Saul features David as one of its main ...
Adonijah, the fourth son of King David from Haggith (2 Samuel 3:4). He attempted to usurp the throne during the life of David (1 Kings 1:11ff). Solomon had him executed after being warned to remember his place in the line of succession per King David’s instruction regarding the crown. 1 Kings 1:32–35; 1:50–53; 2:13–25.
David and Goliath (Titian) David and Goliath (Caravaggio) David and Jonathan (Rembrandt) David and Uriah; David Before the Ark of the Covenant; David with the Head of Goliath (Caravaggio, Rome) David with the Head of Goliath (Castagno) David with the Head of Goliath (Caravaggio, Vienna) David with the Head of Goliath (Massimo Stanzione)
The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe is a play by George Peele, based on the biblical story of David, Bathsheba, and Absalom in 2 Samuel. Probably written in the early 1590s, it was entered into the Stationers' Register on 14 May 1594 and published in 1599, after Peele's death, by the printer Adam Islip. [ 1 ]
Bathsheba at Her Bath (or Bathsheba with King David's Letter) is an oil painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt (1606–1669), finished in 1654.. A depiction that is both sensual and empathetic, it shows a moment from the Old Testament story related in 2 Samuel 11 in which King David sees Bathsheba bathing and, entranced, impregnates her. [1]
The name Tower of David was first used for the Herodian tower in the 5th century CE by the Byzantine Christians, who believed the site to be the palace of King David. [3] [1] They borrowed the name Tower of David from the Song of Songs, attributed to Solomon, King David's son, who wrote: "Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all ...
The David painting is likely based on the account of Plutarch. [ citation needed ] In this version of the myth, Lycurgus , quasi-legendary lawgiver of the state of Sparta , was the younger son of a king of Sparta who became king himself when his elder brother died shortly after their father.
Originally David had intended to depict this episode, and a drawing survives showing the surviving Horatius raising his sword, with his sister lying dead. David later decided that this subject was too gruesome a way of sending the message of public duty overcoming private feeling, but his next major painting, The Lictors Bring to Brutus the ...