The Prodigal Son -- Rembrandt Style Parable Painting HD Wallpaper
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There is no parable in all of Jesus's teaching more beloved or more theologically profound than the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) -- and this masterful HD wallpaper renders the climactic moment of the story in the tradition of Rembrandt's incomparable 1668 painting "The Return of the Prodigal Son," perhaps the single most emotionally powerful painting in the history of Western art. The father -- in rich robes, white-haired, his face a map of long waiting and sudden overwhelming relief -- has wrapped both arms around the kneeling, ragged figure of his returned son, who has come back broken and prepared only to ask to be made a servant. The golden light from the doorway pours over them both; the watching figures in the shadows of the background observe the scene with varying degrees of comprehension. The story is Jesus's answer to the Pharisees' complaint that he eats with sinners: a young man demands his inheritance early (in effect wishing his father dead), wastes it in dissolute living, ends up feeding pigs in a foreign land and eating their food, and comes to his senses: "How many of my father's hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!" He rehearses his speech of repentance and heads home. But while he was "still a long way off" -- the father who had been watching -- ran to meet him. In the Jewish culture of Jesus's day, running was undignified for an older man. The father runs anyway. "For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found." Henri Nouwen's book "The Return of the Prodigal Son," written after spending hours before Rembrandt's painting, remains one of the most beloved meditations on this image. Free HD download.
