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Jacopo_Tintoretto,_The_Worship_of_the_Golden_Calf.jpg (610 × 357 pixels, file size: 113 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
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.
The Adoration of the Golden Calf – picture from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century). According to the Torah and the Quran, the golden calf (Hebrew: עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב, romanized: ʿēḡel hazzāhāḇ) was a cult image made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai.
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."
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Another "coppery-toned" National Gallery Possin (in 2015 hanging next to this one) is The Adoration of the Golden Calf, also dated 1633–34, largely on the basis of this similarity. [13] This is usually thought to have been painted as a pair with The Crossing of the Red Sea , now National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne ; the two remained ...
English: Small statue of the Golden Calf. Louvre museum (Paris, France). Français : Petite statue du Veau d'Or. Musée du Louvre. Date: 16 May 2018: Source:
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