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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Moses and the Burning Bush
Alternate Title:
Moïse devant le buisson ardent
Image View:
Detail, Moses crosses the Red Sea with his followers depicted in his robe, looking at the tablets of the Ten Commandments
Creator:
Marc Chagall (Belorussian painter, 1887-1985)
Location:
repository: Musée National Marc Chagall (Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
Location Note:
36 Avenue Docteur Ménard
GPS:
43.709167 7.269536
Date:
1960-1966 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
195 cm (height) x 312 cm (width)
Subjects:
contemporary (1960 to present); Old Testament and Apocrypha; Angels; Bible; Moses (Biblical leader); syncretism; Captivity in Egypt
Description:
Chagall painted this scene many times, here in its most restricted form with a compact narrative. Moses, on the right, falls on his knees before the bush that burns and is not consumed. The divine mission, to bring the Hebrews out of Egypt, is announced to him by an angel floating in the middle of a colored circle, evocative at the same time of the mandorla found in Romanesque pediments mingled with memories of Orphism from Delaunay. On the left, the scene of the crossing of the Red Sea presents Moses followed by the Jewish people in a tight row in his cloak. This echoes the sheltering of people under the robes of Mary in depictions of the Virgin of Mercy (Madonna della Misericordia). (Source: Chagall Museum [website]; http://en.musees-nat ionaux-alpesmaritime s.fr/chagall/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CHAGALL-MBB-A05
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Moses and the Burning Bush