The banqueting scene depicted in the office of the dead shows a rich man, Dives, sitting with a woman at a trestle table covered by a tablecloth, in keeping with the French furniture of that period, and plenty of food. They talk in the vaulted interior of a building with classical decoration overlooking the street, paying no attention to Lazarus dressed like a peasant with a leper’s clapper in his left hand, touching his cheek with his right hand as if in pain; rejected by servants and welcomed by two dogs.
The banqueting scene depicted in the office of the dead shows a rich man, Dives, sitting with a woman at a trestle table covered by a tablecloth, in keeping with the French furniture of that period, and plenty of food. They talk in the vaulted interior of a building with classical decoration overlooking the street, paying no attention to Lazarus dressed like a peasant with a leper’s clapper in his left hand, touching his cheek with his right hand as if in pain; rejected by servants and welcomed by two dogs.
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