The Prodigal Son in the Brothel [SEP] creator
The Prodigal Son in the Brothel
The Prodigal Son in the Brothel or The Prodigal Son in the Tavern or Rembrandt and Saskia in the parable of the prodigal son () is a painting by the Dutch master Rembrandt. It is housed in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister of Dresden, Germany. It is signed "REMBRANDT F.".
It portrays two people who had been identified as Rembrandt himself and his wife Saskia. In the Protestant contemporary world, the theme of the prodigal son was a frequent subject for works of art
titled, although the rules of this are now unknown but "clearly involved the removal of clothes", at least by some male participants. In "La Main Chaud" ("the hot hand") male participants just got smacked. Paintings showing the parable of the Prodigal Son in his prodigal phase are conceived as merry company scenes of the brothel type, though they are often larger, as was expected of a history painting.
Interpretation.
As with other types of Netherlandish genre painting, the body of merry