Moïse
Moïse par le graveur italien Domenico Cunego (1727 – 1803); d'après une oeuvre de Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola 1503 – 1540) .png
C'est un spectacle dramatique et imposant gravure qui représente le personnage biblique en position assise, covered with a long cloth across his legs and waist with his feet resting on two large stone blocks, as his figure cast a shadow against a flat stone wall.
We can see three beams of light radiating from the back of his head to either side as he holds above his head the Two Stone Tablets of the Old Testament called the Ten Commandments on which the GOD Almighty wrote with his Astral Hand the Laws by which man must live; but that the Israelite’s were not ready to receive, as they lost faith and turned their back to the word of GOD.
We can also see in this majestic and inspiring engraving, that the Tablets are inscribed with the Word and Law of GOD, and that he is about to cast them down against those individuals that have committed a most grievous sin in the Sight of GOD, as told in the Bible by turning away from the Lord, and instead worshipping an idle made of gold resembling that of a calf.
Below the engraving are the words Parmiginrino pin. r. _ Dom Cunego Sculpsit Roma 1773; Vidit Moyse Vitulum, et Choros, iratusque proijecit; de manu Tabulas ad radicem montis. Exoc. Cap XXXII. v.29; Ex Tabula Parmae existente
Il s'agit d'une reproduction de maîtres anciens d'art numérique remasterisée d'une image du domaine public qui est disponible en tant que impression sur toile.