Angelo Bronzino “Moses cuts the water out of the rock.” Fresco of the Eleonora of Toledo Chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, left wall, size 320 x 385 cm, detail. Exhausted by long wanderings through the desert, suffering from heat and thirst, they finally got water. They hungrily pressed their parched lips to life-giving moisture, scooped up the plates and drank, they drank…
This well-known biblical subject saw and captured an Italian master on a fresco in Palazzo Vecchio. Bronzino writes confidently and powerfully, the composition is not inferior to the masterpieces of the Renaissance period, the proportions are proportionate and accurate. In the painting there is no mannerism, no exalted excitement from the revealed miracle, only simple, understandable to every person feelings of joy and gratitude for the fate of salvation.