In the Metropolitan Museum he is named as the Master of the Dinteville Allegory. Illustration about a cartoon biblical illustration showing Moses and Aaron standing before pharaoh and performing the miracle of the staff turning into a. Regarding the painter of this painting, he might be an artist trained in Holland, for many of the heads recall the style of Jan van Scorel. The brothers were important members of the court of François I, who is represented as Pharaoh. Find more prominent pieces of religious painting at best visual art database. Jean de Dinteville is depicted as Moses, while Gaucher and Guillaume stand behind them. ‘Moses and Aaron Before Pharaoh’ was created by Gustave Dore in Romanticism style. Pleading with Pharaoh to free the Israelites, Aaron (François II de Dinteville) transforms his rod into a serpent, proving that God is with him. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent. Like the Ambassadors the Moses is in a sense a family portrait, the Dinteville brothers act out a scene from Exodus 7:9. 10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD commanded. This painting was commissioned in 1537 by François de Dinteville, Bishop of Auxerre, probably to hang as a pendant to Holbein's Ambassadors ordered by his brother Jean some four years previously.
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