Jacob Jordaens, 1650 - Moses Striking Water from the Rock - fine art print

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A crowd of Israelites gathers to observe a dramatic Old Testament miracle. After they wandered in the wilderness of the Sinai Desert without water, God saved them by instructing Moses to strike a rock with his staff, whereupon fresh water gushed out.

Jacob Jordaens conveyed the scene's drama through energetic motion and repetition. Using a characteristically Baroque sweeping horizontal composition, he effortlessly interwove human figures and animals into a frieze that follows from left to right, from anticipation--with jars and drinking vessels at the ready--to Moses' theatrical gesture. The figures' proportions and subtle foreshortening indicate that Jordaens intended the picture to be viewed from below.

Here Jordaens repeated a subject he had first attempted nearly three decades earlier, following his usual practice of reworking ideas and finding new solutions. As here, the devoted Calvinist Jordaens often made instructive, rather than devotional, religious pictures.

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Moses Striking Water from the Rock is a work of art created by the male Dutch artist Jacob Jordaens in 1650. The work of art is included in the The J. Paul Getty Museum's digital art collection. With courtesy of: The J. Paul Getty Museum (license: public domain).: . On top of that, alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format with a ratio of 5 : 2, meaning that the length is two and a half times longer than the width. The painter Jacob Jordaens was an artist, whose art style can be classified as Baroque. The European artist was born in the year 1593 and deceased at the age of 85 in the year 1678 in Antwerp.

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