1870
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Copy after the painting The Trials of Moses (Moses at the Well) by Sandro Botticelli in the Sistine Chapel (Rome) is a 1870 watercolor by Sandro Botticelli, a Early Renaissance work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
You see a watercolour painting of a scene with Moses at a well. The painting is a copy of a fresco by Sandro Botticelli. It was made for the Arundel Society to promote knowledge of art. The society was interested in Renaissance art and 'primitives'. To learn more about the style and techniques used in this painting, look up the technique: sfumato.
A watercolour copy by Eliseo Fattorini after Sandro Botticelli’s fresco *The Trials of Moses* in the Sistine Chapel depicts three scenes from Moses’s life: on the right, Moses slays an Egyptian; in the center, he defends Jethro’s daughters at a well; and on the left, the Israelites journey toward the Promised Land, set against a hilly landscape. Painted in 1870 for the Arundel Society, the work reflects nineteenth-century efforts to reproduce and disseminate Renaissance frescoes, particularly Botticelli’s contributions to the 1481–82 Sistine Chapel cycle, which contrasts Old Testament…
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Sandro Botticelli was a Florentine painter who loved the drama of stories—myths, saints, and ancient tales.
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