''Moses Breaking the Tablets of the Law'' is a 1659 oil-on-canvas painting of the prophet
Moses by the Dutch artist
Rembrandt. It depicts Moses about to break the original
two stone tablets inscribed with the
Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (Biblical Hebrew עשרת הדברים \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים, ''aséret ha-dvarím'', lit. The Decalogue, The Ten Words, cf. Mishnaic Hebrew עשרת הדיברות \ עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְ ...
. It is now in the
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
The Gemäldegalerie (, ''Painting Gallery'') is an art museum in Berlin, Germany, and the museum where the main selection of paintings belonging to the Berlin State Museums (''Staatliche Museen zu Berlin'') is displayed. It was first opened in ...
.
References
See also
*
List of paintings by Rembrandt
The following is a list of paintings by Rembrandt that are accepted as autograph by the Rembrandt Research Project. For other catalogues raisonnés of Rembrandt, see the "Rembrandt" navigation box below.
See also
*List of etchings by Rembrandt
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Bibliography
* Kristin Bahre u. a. (Hrsg.): ''Rembrandt. Genie auf der Suche''. DuMont Literatur und Kunst, Köln 2006.
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Christian Tümpel: ''Rembrandt''. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 2006. .
Shalom Sabar, “Between Calvinists and Jews: Hebrew Script in Rembrandt’s Art,” in Mitchell B. Merback, ed., B''eyond the Yellow Badge: Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism in Medieval and Early European Modern Visual Culture'' (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 371-404, 559-573.
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Paintings by Rembrandt
Paintings in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Paintings depicting Moses
Ten Commandments in art