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Lucas van Leyden 1494 – 1533

The Adoration of the Golden Calf

oil on panel (93 cm high; center panel 67 cm wide; side panels 31 cm wide) — c. 1530

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Lucas van Leyden biography

This work is linked to Exodus 32:4

 

Art and the Bible - Exodus 32 - Old Testament

Exodus 32 1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out

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A triptych by Lucas van Leyden. While Moses receives the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, his people lose faith in their god. 

 

Although forbidden, Moses' brother Aaron casts a golden calf, an idol, and the people sing and dance around it.