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REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn: Moses Smashing the Tablets of the Law

🖼 Moses Smashing the Tablets of the Law, 1659
Oil on canvas
169 × 137 cm
Berlin, Germany

A bearded Moses hurls stone tablets downward in violent motion, his robes billowing dramatically against dark shadows heightened by golden light. The scene captures Old Testament fury with psychological intensity, marking Baroque mastery of human emotion and divine wrath through chiaroscuro.

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