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Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro Rosso Fiorentino, 1523
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Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro

Rosso Fiorentino Β· 1523

Why it's great

Moses leaps into a fight to help two women at a well, in a twisting, packed scene. Rosso Fiorentino painted it in 1523, and it is full of energy and bright, strange colors.

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πŸ“ Uffizi GalleryFlorence, Italy

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About the artist

Rosso Fiorentino

1494–1540 Β· born in Florence Β· died in Fontainebleau

Rosso Fiorentino was a Florentine painter born in 1494 with wild red hair. He painted jagged, strange and colorful pictures, and went to France to decorate the palace at Fontainebleau for King Francis I. He died there in 1540.

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