The banquet of Epulone, 18th century, Neapolitan school
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XVIII, Neapolitan school The banquet of the rich Dives Oil on canvas, 73 x 98 cm - with frame 101.5 x 126.5 Also present are the inevitable silver plates, neatly lined up in ostentatious display on the right side of the painting, and the dogs that , alone, they help the beggar by licking his wounds, this painting unfolds in an airy detail the parable of the rich man. Recalled in Luke (16,19-31), the story constitutes a literary precedent to Dante's retaliation: a very rich man, priest of the temple of Jupiter, organized Lucullian banquets dressed in purple and fine linen every day; one day a poor man came to him, begging for assistance, named Lazarus. The rich are not