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The Adoration of the Golden Calf

painting by Tintoretto

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  • Tintoretto: Last Supper
    In Tintoretto: Career

    …depicting the Jews worshipping the golden calf while Moses on Mount Sinai receives the tables of the Law and the other a Last Judgment, Tintoretto painted two works of the highest rank with a great richness of narrative means, with an awareness of the thematic link between the two scenes…

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