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The Adoration of the Golden Calf – picture from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century). According to the Torah and the Quran, the golden calf (Hebrew: עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב, romanized: ʿēḡel hazzāhāḇ) was a cult image made by the Israelites when Moses went up to Mount Sinai.
It depicts the adoration of the golden calf by the Israelites, from chapter 32 of the Book of Exodus.It was made as part of a pair of paintings (the other being The Crossing of the Red Sea) commissioned by Amadeo dal Pozzo, Marchese di Voghera of Turin, a cousin to Cassiano dal Pozzo, Poussin's main sponsor in Rome.
Provenance: private collection, Chevy Chase, MD. On his second trip to the Middle East, Tanner visited the mountain range of the Sinai Peninsula, the site of this Biblical episode. The Adoration of the Golden Calf was a popular subject among French historical artists of the 17th and 18th centuries including Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain."
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Molinari's Adoration of the golden calf (1700–1702) is in the Hermitage Museum. Antonio Molinari, also known as il Caraccino, (21 January 1655 – 3 February 1704) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era in Venice.
Nolde took an interest for religious inspired works shortly before making this canvas and would create several Biblical themed paintings. This work depicts an event from the book of Exodus, when the Israelites believing that Moses might not return from Mount Sinai, created a golden calf to represent the God that had taken them from Egypt and worshipped them.
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He is known for his books Ichts aus Nichts, für alle Begierigen der Natur published in 1655, Vitulus Aureus (The Golden Calf), published in 1667 under the pseudonym Joakim Philander, and Miraculo transmutandi Metallica, Antwerp, 1667.