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← GOD DAMN
HUMBLE.
The connection
HUMBLE. — song, scripture, image
Artist’s note forthcoming.
The source artwork
The Pharisee and the Publican
- Artist
- Barent Fabritius
- Date
- 1661
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 95 × 293 cm (complete painting)
- Collection
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The original is a wide painting with three scenes, made for the Lutheran church in Leiden. APT’s image uses the central temple scene; the full composition also shows the two men leaving.
Artwork record · Rijksmuseum (opens in a new tab)The artist
Barent Fabritius
1624–1673
Fabritius was born in Midden-Beemster and worked in Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden. The younger brother of Carel Fabritius, he developed an early style influenced by Rembrandt. His career connects several of the cities central to seventeenth-century Dutch painting.
Artist background · National Gallery, London (opens in a new tab)Luke 18:9-14
The Pharisee and the Tax Collector
9To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: 10"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.'
13"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.'
14"I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted."
