He sits in pink in the mouth of the cave.
Bible in art · Daniel
Daniel in the Lions' Den (Ms. 33, fol. 214, from the Weltchronik)
Unknown painter, Regensburg · about 1400–1410
Getty Center, Los Angeles
From the Regensburg Weltchronik, about 1400–1410, a German verse history of the world. At the right the painted ground stops and the bare parchment shows.
Daniel sits calmly at the mouth of a dark cave, with a heap of golden lions beside him. At the left an angel carries an old man by his hair, a pot in his hand — Habakkuk bringing food.
From the text
- Daniel thrown into the den of lions (Daniel 6:16)
- “My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions” (Daniel 6:22)
The artist’s own
- Habakkuk with a pot of food, from the story of Bel and the Dragon in Greek copies of Daniel — not in chapter 6
Details
Daniel
The lions
Golden lions crouch in the den.
Habakkuk
An old man holds a pot of food.
The angel
An angel holds him by the hair.
Unknown illuminator, Regensburg; text by Jansen Enikel (Austrian). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (Ms. 33 (88.MP.70), fol. 214) · Tempera colors, gold, silver paint, and ink · Images provided here are believed to be in the public domain and are available under CC0 through Getty’s Open Content Program. (Getty record: "No Copyright", http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)