Moses Descends from Mount Sinai Descendit de Monte Sinai, tenens Tabulas in manibus: Videbantq: Filii Israel cornutam faciem ejus

by Raphael. Raffaello Sanzio d'Urbino

$1,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A stunning plate from Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano : with contemporary colouring of the highest quality from the golden age of the hand-coloured print. The main panel shows Moses coming down from Mount Sinai, holding the tablets bearing the ten words of the Covenant, his face horned from the conversation of the Lord . Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses horned are afraid to come near. A very fine image from the second part of a work titled Loggie

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