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The Prodigal Son Playing in a Brothel
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The four round "tissues" (Inv. 359, 360, 1579, and 1578) with scenes from the Parable of the Prodigal Son are presumably part of a larger series. This would also fit the stickers on the stretcher frames of Inv. 1579 and 1578 with an old numbering "X" and "XI". Renger 1970 conjectures, not entirely convincingly, a sequence of 12 images, which he reconstructed via drawings and later copies. The genre-like moralizing elaboration of the biblical parable (Luke 15:11–32), extended...
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Credit lineDer verlorene Sohn beim Spiel im Freudenhaus. um 1520. Niederländischer Meister, 16. Jh.. Kunstmuseum Basel, Geschenk von Louise Bachofen-Burckhardt. Public domain.
