Focus on Bathsheba at her Bath (Veronese) and explain the Analysis.
The painting deals with the theme of adultery linked to that of Justice. According to art historians Daniel Arasse and Joséphine Le Foll, two biblical stories are intertwined in this painting:
The theme of Susanna is suggested by the presence of the fountain and an old man, but there is only one (if one considers that the elders are the ones in the arcades, while the presence of man in red in the foreground is inexplicable).
The theme of David and Bathsheba has an old David, and this is unusual especially as artists generally follow the Bible, in which David sent a young messenger to Bathsheba rather than going to meet her in person, as in the painting by Jan Matsys in the Louvre. However, in other paintings of this subject it is sometimes David himself who comes to see Bathsheba, which would be the case here.
Susanna Daniel Arasse David Bathsheba Jan Matsys