Salomons Dom / The Judgement of Solomon - Randers, Denmark - Relief Art Sculptures on Waymarking.com

På Vinkelstræde ligger et lille hus med et helt fantastisk bronze relief på muren. Det viser en meget dramatisk scene fra Biblen, og derunder er skrevet årstallet 1673, indrammet af en fint udført dekoration.

Hvorfor det er placeret her, eller hvem der har lavet det vides ikke, men motivet er helt specielt, og på ingen måde et motiv man vil forvente at finde på et tilfældigt hus i en lille gade.

Motivets fortælling stammer fra Første Kongebog i Bibelen hvor der fortælles, at Kong Salomon skulle dømme i en sag om to prostituerede, som boede i det samme hus og havde født på samme tid. Et af børnene døde kort efter, og nu påstod begge at være mor til det levende barn.

Kong Salomons retfærdighedssans og klogskab viste sig ved, at han lod et sværd bringe og befalede at lade det levende barn kløve, så de hver kunne få en halvdel. Ordren fremkaldte den ønskede reaktion hos den sande mor, som gav afkald på sin halvdel i håbet om at redde barnets liv.

Reliefets motiv er en kopi af den flamske kunstner Peter Paul Rubens oliemaleri "The Judgement of Solomon" fra ca. 1917. Dette maleri er en del af samlingen på Statens Museum for Kunst - se Google Art Project

Rubens er mester i at organisere kompositionen i et naturligt fortælleforløb. Han har dog i dette tilfælde ikke ført penslen selv i nævneværdig grad. Maleriet regnes for at være et produkt af hans indtægtsgivende værksted, hvor en flok dygtige malere overførte mesterens egenhændigt udførte olieskitser til stort format. Rubens kontrollerede naturligvis selv kvaliteten og rettede lidt på udformningen, inden maleriet gik ud af huset.

At Vinkelstræde is a small house with an absolut amazing bronze relief at the wall. It shows a very dramatic scene from the Bible. Below the scene, the year 1673 is written inside a beautiful frame.

Why it is located here and who made it is unknown. The scene is however in no way something you would expect to find on a random house here.

The first Book of Kings in the Bible tells the story of how King Solomon had to pass judgment in a case concerning two prostitutes who lived in the same house and had given birth at the same time. One of the children died shortly afterwards, and now both women claimed the living child as theirs.

King Solomon’s wisdom and sense of justice led him to have a sword brought in and to order the living child cloven in two so that the women could share it. This order provoked the desired response in the true mother who gave up her half in the hope of saving the child’s life.

The scene is a copy from the famous oilpainting "The Judgement of Solomon" made by the Flemish Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens in 1917. Today this painting is part of the collection found at the National Gallery of Denmark. - See Google Art Project

Rubens is a master of arranging compositions to form natural narratives. In this case, however, he did not do much of the brushwork himself. The painting is believed to be a product of his lucrative workshop where a group of highly skilled painters translated the master’s own oil studies into large finished canvases.

Your impression of the sculpture?: Date Sculpture was opened for vewing?: 01/01/1673 Where is this sculpture?: Vinkelstræde 2 Randers, Denmark 8900 Sculptors Name: Unknown Website for sculpture?: Not listed

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