#ahasuerus

[joemerl]

Esther: Haman is trying to genocide my people!

Ahasuerus, who gave Haman permission to do that four chapters ago:

[charnel-grounds]

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1860–1933)

“Ahasuerus at the End of the World” — oil on canvas, 1888

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[surfingkaliyuga]

“Ahasverus am Ende der Welt / Ahasuerus at the End of the World” Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl 1888

[classic-art-favourites]

Ahasuerus at the End of the World by Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl, 1888.

[obsession-of-aesthetic]

"Ahasuerus at the End of the World" by Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1888)

The painting depicts "the Wandering Jew" Ahasuerus, who was cursed with immortality to witness the end of the world according to the legend. The legend began to spread in the 13th century, Europe.

The legend has various versions and in the original, Ahasuerus mocks Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion, thus cursed to wander endlessly until the Second Coming.

The origins of the legend are uncertain, yet widely spread in various languages.

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl was a well-known Hungarian, Jewish artist, who was especially famous for his historical and mythical paintings. He covered subjects of ancient Rome in many of his works.

He was born 31 January 1860 in Temesvár, at the time a part of Hungary. Later at an early age he went to Vienna to study. He received a scholarship to attend the Akademie der bildenden Künste in 1878. Two years later, he won his first prize with "Farewell: Scene from Hannibal Crossing the Alps", followed in 1882 by a prize that allowed him to travel to Rome. His time there was a major influence on his choice of subject matter.

His heirs kept several of his smaller pieces until the early 1980s, while some of his larger historical paintings sadly have been lost.

[didoofcarthage]

Esther Before Ahasuerus by Jacopo Robusti, called Il Tintoretto

Italian, c. 1546-1547

oil on canvas

Royal Collection Trust (acquired by King Charles I)

[septembergold]

The biblical legend of Esther and Ahasuerus, Harold Copping,1927

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Josef Mandl - Ahasuerus, the wandering jew, 1910-20.

The Wandering Jew is a mythical immortal man whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 13th century.[a] In the original legend, a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion was then cursed to walk the Earth until the Second Coming. The exact nature of the wanderer's indiscretion varies in different versions of the tale, as do aspects of his character; sometimes he is said to be a shoemaker or other tradesman, while sometimes he is the doorman at the estate of Pontius Pilate.