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Description: | The picture illustrates an episode from the Old Testament (Exodus 32), in which the Israelites dance around the statue of a golden calf which Aaron had made for them to worship while Moses was away on Mount Sinai. This biblical subject is treated in a classicising style. This is a copy of a well-known painting, The Adoration of the Golden Calf by the French artist Poussin, which is now in the National Gallery. Poussin's painting dates to the mid-1630s, and the style of this copy suggests that it might have been made some decades later by an Italian painter. | Subjects: | animal (calf); figure; landscape; religion (Adoration of the Golden Calf) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Poussin, Nicolas (French painter and draftsman, 1594-1665, active in Italy) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8543... | Go to resource |
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