RENI, Guido
(b. 1575, Calvenzano, d. 1642, Bologna)

Moses with the Tables of the Law (detail)

c. 1624
Oil on canvas
Galleria Borghese, Rome

Angered by the worship of the golden calf, we see Moses shouting and making a gesture that is at once imperious and violent, at the moment prior to the breaking of the Tables of the Law.