La legge data a Mosè

The Law Given to Moses by Lotto from 1525 continues the Old Testament narrative cycle. Lotto’s Bergamasque period (1513–1525) was among his most productive, resulting in major altarpieces and the remarkable intarsia designs that demonstrate his narrative imagination and compositional inventiveness. Tempera on panel suited the precise, layered technique expected by ecclesiastical and private patrons across Europe. itinerant, working across Venice, Bergamo, Marche, and Rome, always outside mainstream Venetian tradition.

The Mosaic scene is rendered with dramatic lighting and bold figure arrangement. Lotto’s characteristic use of strong, saturated colors creates visual impact appropriate to the theophanic subject.