The Test of Fire of Moses

The Test of Fire of Moses is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Giorgione (1500-1501). It is housed in the Galleria degli Uffizi of Florence. The work is dimensionally and thematically similar to the Judgement of Salomon, also in the Uffizi, and is dated to the years immediately after Giorgione's moving to Venice. The episode is taken from the Talmud, and was probably commissioned by an acculturated person who was not entirely following... more

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Giorgione

Giorgione (born Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; c. 1477/8 – 1510) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance in Venice. Giorgione is known for the elusive poetic quality of his work, though only about six surviving paintings are acknowledged for certain to be his work. The resulting...
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