In a rocky landscape, Moses climbs a road on the left. An encampment and a large group of people can be seen at the foot of a mountain.
| Artist |
Adriaen Collaert
RKD
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| Title | Moses on Mount Sinai, from the series Cursus Omnium Creaturarum Dei |
| Date | ca. 1580 - 1584 |
| Period | 16th century |
| Medium and support | engravings AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription in the depiction, at the bottom right: HBol inuent: A. Coll: fec: Sadler excud: |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, below: NobiScum, ut Scimus, quidquid toto orbo creatum est / Suspirat una & parturit. / PerculSuqR metu ad dîae verba horrida Legis, / Fugam ab oro capeâit Dei. / Rom 8 | |
| inscription on the reverse: 504 | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | engravings AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-NP |
| Acquisition credit |
onbekend 2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-NP |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11720/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300055874
religious symbolism
AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25H11
mountains
Iconclass
25H112 rocks Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 41A191 tent Iconclass 46A7 crowd, mob Iconclass 48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass 71 Old Testament Iconclass 71E1 the book Exodus: story of Moses and Aaron Iconclass 26E2 lightning, flash of lightning, thunderbolt Iconclass 71E132 arrival of the Israelites at Mount Sinai (Exodus 19, 20:18-21) Iconclass 71E1321 the Israelites come to Mount Sinai and set up camp at the foot of the mountain Iconclass 71E1323 Mount Sinai is covered by a thick cloud, thunder and lightning Iconclass |
| School / Style | Renaissance AAT |
| Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 : Vol. IV. Brun - Coques / Friedrich Wilhelm H. Hollstein. - Amsterdam : Menno Hertzberger, 1949- ; Amsterdam : Van Gendt & Co., 1978 (205) |
| Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 : Vol. III. Boekhorst - Brueghel / Friedrich Wilhelm H. Hollstein. - Amsterdam : Menno Hertzberger, 1949- ; Amsterdam : Van Gendt & Co., 1978 (51) |
| Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 : Vol. V. Cornelisz. - Dou / Friedrich Wilhelm H. Hollstein. - Amsterdam : Menno Hertzberger, 1949- ; Amsterdam : Van Gendt & Co., 1978 |
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