Art, Symbol & Imagination
Daniel Confounds the Priests of Bel
A speaker gestures inside a huge temple while a gathered court looks towards the floor and the surrounding chamber. The receding pillars give the encounter the formal scale of an institution, but the activity centres on evidence within an ordinary visible space. The caption identifies Daniel’s confrontation with the priests of Bel, a narrative belonging to the Greek additions associated with Daniel. Doré sets the argument among witnesses, giving the act of exposure a public setting rather than rendering it as a private insight.
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Gustave Doré (design). "Daniel Confounds the Priests of Bel" [editorial title]. In The Bible Gallery, Gustave Dore; Talbot W. Chambers. Undated Cassell & Company edition; one hundred illustrations with supplied descriptive letterpress, undated edition, Cassell & Company, Limited. Source scan leaf 229. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-228
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Complete plate reviewed against the scan; printed caption supplies subject. Crop excludes surrounding paper and separate caption without changing scan tone. Letterpress theology is not adopted as historical proof.
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Gustave Doré (design). Daniel Confounds the Priests of Bel. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 229. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-228