The Bible In Paintings 80A: Third of Three Parables of Redemption—THE LOST SON, Part 1

c.2,200 BC - c.95 AD | by the Father, Son & Holy Spirit

[Hebrews 11:6]

Luke 15 records three Parables of Redemption which Jesus told. Two days ago we looked at The Lost Sheep, yesterday was The Lost Coin, and now we'll take four days for The Lost Son—The Prodigal.

PARABLE OF

THE PRODIGAL

SON — AND

HIS BROTHER

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LUKE 15
New International Version ©1984, emphases added
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LUKE 15:11-32

Jesus continued: "There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them.

"Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.

prodigal
[ˈprädəɡəl]
ADJECTIVE
1. spending money or resources freely and recklessly; wastefully extravagant.

		REBELLIOUS SON

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by LUCA GIORDANO, 1685
"The Parable of the Prodigal Son—Receiving His Portion"

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by BARTOLOME ESTEBAN MURILLO
"The Prodigal Son Receives His Rightful Inheritance"

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by BARTOLOME ESTEBAN MURILLO
"The Departure of the Prodigal Son"

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"The Prodigal Son Leaving Home"

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"The Prodigal Son Leaving Home"

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by FRANZ CHRISTOPH JANNECK
"The Prodigal Son Takes Leave of his Father"

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by NICOLAS-ANTOINE TAUNAY
"The Departure of the Prodigal Son"

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by PIETRO TESTA
"Il Figliol Prodigo Abbandona la Casa Paterna"

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by JAMES TISSOT
"The Prodigal Son in Modern Life: the Departure"

		CARNAL SON

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by PALMA IL GIOVANE, 1597
"Amusements of the Prodigal Son"

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by JOHANN WOLFGANG BAUMGARTNER
"The Prodigal Son Living with Harlots"

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by FRANS FRANCKEN II
"The Prodigal Son with the Courtesans"

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by JAN VAN BYLERT
"The Prodigal Son among the Whores"

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"The Prodigal Son Celebrates with Harlots"

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"The Prodigal Son Celebrates with Harlots"

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by FRANS FRANCKEN II
"The Parable Of The Prodigal Son"

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by BARTOLOME ESTEBAN MURILLO
"The Prodigal Son Feasting with Courtesans"

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by GERARD VAN HONTHORST, 1623
"The Prodigal Son"

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by JAN SANDERS VAN HEMESSEN, 1536
"The Prodigal Son"

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by DAVID TENIERS the Younger, 1640
"The Prodigal Son"

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by BEHAM, 1540
"The Prodigal Son Wasting His Patrimony"

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by PIETRO TESTA
"Story of the Prodigal Son II - Dissipation"

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by Flemish Unknown Masters
"The Pleasures of the Prodigal Son"

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by GABRIEL METSU
"Prodigal Son"

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by JAN CORNELISZ VERMEYEN
"The Prodigal Son Feasting with Harlots"

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by FRANZ CHRISTOPH JANNECK
"The Prodigal Son Spending His Money in Riotous Living"

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by REMBRANDT
"Sketch of the Prodigal Son with a Whore"

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by REMBRANDT
"The Prodigal Son in the Brothel"

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by LUCA GIORDANO, 1685
"The Prodigal Son, Driven Out by His Former Companions "

To be continued…

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[etabeta]

WOW! A tour de force! The parable of the prodigal son has inspired so many artists, a beautiful message of forgiveness.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Forgiveness, as you have highlighted, is God’s specialty. Otherwise, heaven would be mighty lonely.

[themidnightskulker]

Thank you for posting this one.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Three more parts still to come for this amazing parable.

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Good Morning, Dan! :-)

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Mary-Lou! Thanks for stopping by, after your musical worship at the neighborhood AoG.

[ConorMacNessa]

Thanks very much for the WB, Dan - Between work and medical issues i have fallen far behind. Thanks very much also for the Prodigal Son, one of the crucial exemplars of Jesus' message! Interesting that the Italian Masters all treated of the departure of the Prodigal Son while the Teutonic and Flemish Masters all depicted him wallowing with the harlots.

"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

"God save all here!"

[Hebrews 11:6]

Tom, I rejoice with you that our wise and loving God is in complete control of all the challenges we face.

I hadn't noticed the cultural bifurcation of artistic responses. Many more images still to come.

By the way, speaking of artists' choices: in #28, Rembrandt portrayed himself as the Prodigal and his wife as the Prostitute.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Delightful images of dissipation with some surprises. I didn’t expect Tissot to show a modern prodigal. I thought the prodigal in the Rembrandt looked like Rembrandt. It’s funnier when you realize the harlot is his wife.

An interesting insight is that Jesus said the younger son spent his fortune on ‘riotous living’. But the older brother said he spent it on harlots. It could be he was not a whoremonger, but perhaps kept company with them and his brother believed the worst of him—and spoke the worst of him.

Jesus is speaking these parables to: Luke 15:1 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming to hear him. 2 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

3 So Jesus told them this parable: (then follow the three redemption parables)

This insult of spending time with harlots was leveled at Jesus from the Pharisees. Thus He puts the Pharisees in the place of the older brother.

[Hebrews 11:6]

I didn’t expect Tissot to show a modern prodigal.

Tissot did a modern series: leaving, dissipating, returning....

Not sure whether to make anything of the "riotous living" vs. "harlots" disjoint; after all, it was Jesus who put the words in the brother's mouth. Perhaps He was illustrating the accusations which anger produces.

This insult of spending time with harlots was leveled at Jesus from the Pharisees. Thus He puts the Pharisees in the place of the older brother.

Well-associated! But in recognizing that the angry, insulted older brother represents Israel in Jesus' morality play, we must also notice the part the Prodigal plays: the Gentiles. O what a laugh Jesus must have had!