The Judgement of Cambyses, David

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Pietro Maria Liuzzo
by Wikimedia Commons
published on 18 November 2014
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Gerard David, The Judgement of Cambyses, 1498 CE, Groeninge Museum, Bruges, Belgium. This diptych shows a scene from Herodotus's Histories: the arrest and flaying of the Persian judge Sisamnes, who was a corrupt judge, by order of Cambyses, the Persian king.

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