#Gerard David

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Gerard David (Netherlandish, 1460-1523) Virgin and Child with Four Angels, ca.1510-15 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Gerard David

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Gerard David - The Annunciation. Detail. 1505

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1498 - Judgement of Cambyses, by Gerard David - detail

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Gerard David, The Judgement of Cambyses (detail), 1498. Oil on wood, 202 cm × 349.5 cm. Groeningemuseum, Bruges.

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The Adoration of the Magi, Gerard David, ca. 1520

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Gerard David, Virgin and Child with Four Angels, 1510-1515 x

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Christus ans Kreuz genagelt von Gerard David (1481, oil painting)

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Gerard David (BE, 1460 - 1523)

The Judgment of Cambyses, 1488. Oil on wood 202 cm × 349.5 cm. Groeninge Museum, Bruges, Belgium

Sisamnes was, according to Herodotus's Histories, a corrupt royal judge active in the Persian empire during the reign of Cambyses II of Persia. When Cambyses learned that Sisamnes had accepted a bribe to influence a verdict, he had him promptly arrested and sentenced him to be flayed alive. He had the skin of the flayed Sisamnes cut into leather strips. Cambyses then appointed Otanes, the son of the condemned Sisamnes, as his father's judicial successor. In order to remind Otanes what happens to corrupt judges and not forget the importance of judicial integrity, Cambyses ordered that the new judge's chair be draped in the leather strips made from the skin of the flayed Sisamnes. Otanes later became a satrap in Ionia. Cambyses warned Otanes to continually keep in mind the source of the leather of the chair upon which he would be seated to deliberate and deliver his judgment. The story was also referred to by the first century Latin author Valerius Maximus in his Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX (The nine books of memorable deeds and sayings). Whereas in Herodotus' version Sisamnes' skin is cut into strips, Maximus has the skin stretched across the chair.

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Herodotus in Histories, one of the earliest accounts of the rise of the Persian empire and the Greco-Persian Wars in the 5th c. BC, portrays the conflict as one between slavery (Persians) and freedom (Greeks).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Judgement_of_Cambyses

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Gerard David - The Annunciation (c. 1520)

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Gerard David (Netherlandish, 1460-1523) La Vierge entre les vierges, ca.1509 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France La Vierge Marie et l'Enfant Jésus entourés de Saintes Martyres. De gauche à droite, Dorothée, Catherine d'Alexandrie, Agnès, derrière elle une inconnue puis Fausta, Apolline, Godelive, Cécile, Barbe et pour finir Lucie. De part et d'autre se tiennent le peintre et son épouse.

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Gerard David

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Gerard David - God the Father. 1506

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1498 Gerard David - The Judgment of Cambyses diptych: The capture of the corrupt judge Sisamnes & The skinning of Sisamnes

(Groeninge Museum)