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Please note that deleting superseded images requires ... National Gallery of Art ... 1=The Worship of the Golden Calf, c. 1560, by Jacopo Tintoretto; oil on canvas ...
Provenance: private collection, Chevy Chase, MD. On his second trip to the Middle East, Tanner visited the mountain range of the Sinai Peninsula, the site of this Biblical episode. The Adoration of the Golden Calf was a popular subject among French historical artists of the 17th and 18th centuries including Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain."
It depicts the adoration of the golden calf by the Israelites, from chapter 32 of the Book of Exodus. It was made as part of a pair of paintings (the other being The Crossing of the Red Sea) commissioned by Amadeo dal Pozzo, Marchese di Voghera of Turin, a cousin to Cassiano dal Pozzo, Poussin's main sponsor in Rome. By 1685 the pair had passed ...
It was made as part of a pair of paintings (the other being The Adoration of the Golden Calf) commissioned by Amadeo dal Pozzo, Marchese di Voghera of Turin, a cousin to Cassiano dal Pozzo, Poussin's main sponsor in Rome. By 1685 the pair had passed to the Chevalier de Lorraine and in 1710 they were bought by Benigne de Ragois de Bretonvillers.
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Christ Calming the Storm on the Sea of Galilee, circa 1570, 117.1 × 169,2 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Danaë, circa 1570, 142 × 182 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon; Ultima Cena, circa 1570, 228 × 535 cm, San Polo, Venice; Madonna and Child or Madonna of the Stars, early 1570s, 92,7 × 72,7 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Nolde took an interest for religious inspired works shortly before making this canvas and would create several Biblical themed paintings. This work depicts an event from the book of Exodus, when the Israelites believing that Moses might not return from Mount Sinai, created a golden calf to represent the God that had taken them from Egypt and worshipped them.
The Golden Calf and the Altar, an episode in the unfinished opera Moses und Aron, a three-act, uncompleted opera by Arnold Schoenberg; Dance around the Golden Calf by Giuseppe Gambarini (1680 – 11 September 1725). National Museum of Serbia. Belgrade, Serbia. The Golden Calf, a sculpture by conceptual artist Damien Hirst