The Test of Fire of Moses (Giorgione)

The Test of Fire of Moses (Giorgione)

Infobox Painting|



title=The Test of Fire of Moses
artist=Giorgione
year=1500-1501
type=Oil on panel
height=89
width=72
city=Florence
museum=Uffizi
The "Test of Fire of Salomon" 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 [http://www.artonline.it/opera.asp?IDOpera=959] by an acculturated person who was not entirely following to the official Roman Catholic positions.

The horizontal setting is similar to that in Giovanni Bellini's "Holy Allegory", also in the Uffizi, and allows the painter to give importance to the landscape. In the latter's care for detail are evident influences from Northern Europe painting.

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External links

* [http://www.virtualuffizi.com/uffizi1/Uffizi_Pictures.asp?Contatore=216 Image of "Moses Undergoes Trial by Fire"] , next to the "Judgement of Solomon" at Uffizi Gallery


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