Picture on the Pillar for Advent

The Fall of Babylon

John Martin


John Stamper writes:

'This rather terrifying image which I saw at the “Babylon” exhibition at the British Museum seems appropriate to Advent with its theme of the “Four Last Things”. Belshazzar is being murdered by his courtiers at the bottom left, and you can just see Daniel above Belshazzar's head. The Tower of Babel and the Hanging Gardens are more obvious.'