Bathsheba in the bath by Sebastiano Ricci

Bathsheba in the bath by Sebastiano Ricci

Painting by Italian painter Sebastian Ricci “Bathsheba in the bath”. The size of the painting is 119 x 199 cm, oil on canvas. Beauty Bathsheba, in the Bible, one of the wives of the King of the Jews of David, the mother of the wisest Israeli ruler Solomon.

According to 2-1 of the Book of Kings, she was the wife of one of David’s commanders, Uriah the Hittite, whom the king, having fallen in love with Bathsheba, sent for certain death during the siege of the Ammonite city of Rabbah. In punishment for this sin, the first son of Bathsheba and King David died.

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