Judgement of Solomon
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The Judgement of Solomon is a story from the Book of Kings in which Solomon ruled between two women who both claimed to be the mother of a child. Solomon ordered the baby be cut in half, with each wom
Fresco of the Judgment of Solomon, Frauenberg, Styria
Sculpture given either to Pietro Lamberti or to Nanni di Bartolo. It stands at the corner of the Doge's Palace in Venice (Italy), next to Porta della Carta
The Judgement of Solomon (School of Giorgione, 1500)
The Judgement of Solomon by Gaspar de Crayer, c. 1620
The Chalk Circle
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The Chalk Circle, by Li Qianfu, is a Yuan dynasty Chinese classical zaju verse play and gong'an crime drama, in four acts with a prologue. It was preserved in a collection entitled Yuan-chu-po-cheng,
Judgement of Solomon
…the Yakshini and expelled her. In other Indian versions, the two women are widows of one husband. Another version appears in Li Qianfu's Chinese drama The Chalk Circle (in which the judge draws a circle on the ground), which has spread worldwide, many versions and reworkings being made, such as Bertolt Brecht's 1940s…
An illustration of a scene from The Chalk Circle