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Material : Fresco
| Exodus 2:16-25, 3:1-6, 4
Item 20 on 28
Indoor Architecture
Fresco (Wall fresco)
Vitrine : 6
Area related
Le Vatican (Le Vatican)
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Botticelli painted three scenes within the short period of eleven months: Scenes from the Life of Moses, The Temptation of Christ and The Punishment of Korah. He also painted, with much help from his workshop, in the niches above the biblical scenes, some portraits of popes which have been considerably painted over. In all these works his painting appears relatively weak.
The Scenes of the Life of Moses fresco is opposite The Temptation of Christ also painted by Botticelli. The two pictures are typologically related in that both deal with the theme of temptation. Botticelli integrated seven episodes from the life of the young Moses into the landscape with considerable skill, by opening up the surface of the picture with four diagonal rows of figures.
One can identify Moses in various stages of his life, in the act of
- killing the Egyptian who did harm to an Israelite
- as he escaped from Egypt, defended the daughters of Jethro from the shepards and then assisted the daughters to give water to the sheep
- as he took off his sandles before approaching the burning bush
- as he lead the Jews out of Egypt.
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