The Good Samaritan ☰ Rembrandt ☷ Art Print movies Opposite is the island of

Opposite is the island of la Grande Jatte

not posing

serving as a memento mori or symbolic of the cycle of life and death

as an African king

and an obscured lighted sign viewable outside the window

The Good Samaritan ☰ Rembrandt ☷ Art Print movies Opposite is the island ofLandscape with the Good Samaritan (1638) by Rembrandt van Rijn depicts the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan, a compassionate figure tending to a wounded traveler on the side of a road. The scene shows the Samaritan bandaging the man's wounds while on a donkey, as other figures look on from the roadside. The distant landscape depicts windmills, as well as other travelers and a carriage with a team of horses, under a stormy sky. Rembrandt's drama