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| Title: A painting reserved for `nobil diletto'; Poussin's "Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh" for Camillo Massimo Secondary Title: Gazette des Beaux-Arts Volume: 143 Pages: 184-202 Type: Journal Article Year: 2001 Abstract: Two paintings of Nicolas Poussin depict the infant Moses' trampling the crown of the Pharaoh and Moses' turning the rod of Aaron into a serpent. The subjects of these paintings drew the sources from Josephus' Antiquities not from the Exodus. Giovanni Pietro Bellori, who wrote a bibliography of Poussin in 1672, claimed that the paintings were drawn for a small number of nobles, who were learned enough to understand the complicated problems such as the sources of texts. Keywords: Poussin, Nicolas; Bible: influences: art; Moses; Jewish Antiquities |