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In this excerpt, a museum guide talks to a group of children about the painting The Finding of Moses, by Orazio Gentileschi, and about other "stories" in the museum.

Moses at the Red Sea (1320) illumination from Golden Haggadah Courtesy The British Library, London Perhaps the most extensive depictions of Moses can be found in many of the Haggadotof 14th ...

29.4 x 35.7 cm. (11.6 x 14.1 in.) H. Brigstocke in Masterpieces from Yorkshire Houses, exh. cat., York 1994, p. 96, no. 58 (as attributed to Sebastiano Galeotti). The canvas has a firm relining which ...