« esther and mordecai write the letters to the jews » (jorge glusberg, masterpieces of the national museum of fine arts, buenos aires: mnba, 1996, p. 38). Source of inspiration: "mordecai wrote [. . ] and sent letters to all the jews who were in all the provinces of king ahasuerus, near and far, ordering them to celebrate the fourteenth day of the month of adar, and the fifteenth of the same month, of each year, as days in which the jews were at peace with their enemies, and as the month in which sadness was changed to joy, and mourning to festivity; to make them days of feasting and for joy, in a day of sending gifts each to his neighbor, and gifts to the poor" (esther 9:20-22). Oil painting alternatively known as esther and mordecai writing the first letter of purim. Object Type: painting. Date: 1675. Dimensions: height: 111 cm (43.7 in) ; width: 132 cm (51.9 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: National Museum of Fine Arts. Aert de Gelder - Esther y Mardoqueo escribiendo la primera carta del Purim
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