# The Judgment of Cambyses [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VELLERT, Dirck Jacobsz.]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Grisaille and silver stain yellow on lightly tinted glass pane, diameter 30 cm ## Commentary This is Vellert's last dated pane of glass. It is painted in medium to dark-brown grisaille combined with silver stain yellow in tones from golden yellow to a deep, reddish yellow. The subject is taken from Herodotus: the judge Sisamnes, who had been guilty of prevarication, was arrested and punished by Cambyses, the King of Persia. For his crimes, Sisamnes was condemned to be flayed alive. Cambyses then appointed the judge's son Otanes to serve in his father's place. Vellert based this pane to a later account of the story, which states that Cambyses ordered Sisamnes' skin to be hung above Otanes' seat. ## Related artworks - [Christ Rescuing St Peter from the Sea]() - [St Bernard Adoring the Christ Child]() - [St Luke Painting the Virgin]() - [The Triumph of Faith]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()