Daniel in the Lions‘ Den by Sir Peter Paul Rubens https://www.nga.gov/artworks/50298-daniel-lions-den
Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous painting, based on the Old Testament story of Daniel, puts us right in the lions’ den. The Jewish youth was condemned to spend the night with the brutal beasts for worshipping his God rather than the Persian king Darius.
[1] See Oliver Millar, The Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures in the Collection
