BRONZINO, Agnolo
(b. 1503, Firenze, d. 1572, Firenze)

Crossing of the Red Sea (detail)

c. 1540
Fresco
Cappella di Eleonora, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

In the Crossing of the Red Sea, Moses, seen crouching and gesticulating on the right in a pose highly dependent on Michelangelo's sculpture of the same subject, is about to drop his hand after having led the Israelites out of their exile in Egypt.