Moses
Valentin De Boulogne (1591 – 1632)
Udforsk Valentin de Boulogne's tenebristiske malerier! Fransk kunstner kendt for dramatiske lys- og mørkekontraster, Caravaggio-indflydelse og scener med spåkonst.
Moses holds a rod and the tablets with the Ten Commandments. (The Hebrew has been copied imperfectly: Was the text provided by Angelo Giori, a learned patron of Valentin whose portrait is in another gallery?) This is not the fierce, vigorous prophet sculpted by Michelangelo but an aged figure—we seem to recognize the model—absorbed in thought. The picture was meant to appeal to antiquarian interests, for Moses is classically garbed and over his blue toga he wears a Roman cloak, or paludamentum, decorated with a Greek meander pattern. In 1637, the picture was sold in Venice by the painter Nicolas Régnier—painters also acted as dealers—to James, third Marquis Hamilton; it then entered the Habsburg collections in Vienna.
Om dette kunstværk
- Titel: Moses
- Kunstner: Valentin De Boulogne
- År: 1625
- Oprindelige mål: 131.0 x 104.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Ophavsretlig status: Public domain
- Kontekstuelt korpus: vienna habsburg influence , exploring human condition
- Hovedfarve: Phthalo Green
- Nøgleord: ten commandments , biblical art , roman antiquity
- Farvetone: Yellow-Green Range


