Q.1. Describe what you see in this painting.
Q.2. What age is the man lying in the bed? Give reasons.
Q.3. Why do you think he is in bed? Who might the shadowed figure represent?
Q.4. Where is he? What is the purpose of the objects depicted?
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The thumbnail image for this exercise is:
The Good Samaritan by Balthaar van Cortbemde (1647)
Royal Museum of Fine Art Antwerp
Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain including the United States
Note: The parable of the Good Samaritan (Gospel of St. Luke) is where a man (implicitly understood as Jewish) lies stripped and beaten by the side of the road. A Jewish priest and Levite pass by him while a Samaritan, an ethnoreligious people from ancient Samaria who are antagonistic to each other, stops to help him.