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Supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich

Author name
Скрижали Завета
1931
tempera on canvas
80.6 × 124.5 cm
1.0087
Signatures, notes:

Подпись и дата справа внизу: монограмма / 1931

Location of the works
Nicholas Roerich Museum. New York

Helena Roerich col.; Katherine Campbell col., USA (1948); Nicholas Roerich Museum (1973)

The work is based on the records of the book of Hierarchies (301). Agni Yoga. "The epoch is very majestic! Remember, while Moses on the mountain said the tablets, the people below were indulged in madness. But the calf of iniquity collapsed in face of the Supreme Testament!" "Who will appreciate the secret quality of the Savior's saliva or the laying of the Moses' hands? People are not used to value a fiery heart." (305) On the one hand, the artist painted a realistic landscape of the Himalayas, however, it includes some elements of iconography in the image of Mount Sinai – "corrugated" rocks, which we can see on old icons and frescoes. The very image of Moses recalls that in the frescoes of the Renaissance, in particular, the Sistine Chapel.