Story of Moses depicted in the gilded bronze panel from the Gates of Paradise (Porta del Paradiso) designed by Italian Early Renaissance sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti for the Florence Baptistery (Battistero di San Giovanni), now on display in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo (Museum of the Works of the Florence Cathedral) in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The Israelites cross the Red Sea (L) and Moses receives the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai (above) are depicted in the panel.


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