Briton Riviere was lionized for his painting of this man "In The Lions' Den"
Amazon.com: Briton Riviere "Daniel in the Lions Den": Prints ...  Product Description. The story of Daniel in the lions' den is found in the sixth chapter of the ... Darius (at the instigation of his other officials) had made a decree that no one was to offer prayer to any god or man except him for a period of thirty days. Daniel continued to pray as was his habit, knowing that praying would have...
Brideshead Revisited - Wikipedia  Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in ... In 1923, protagonist and narrator Charles Ryder, an undergraduate studying history at a college...