I stopped to stare at another of Tiepolo's
paintings, “The Finding of Moses”. The story is that Moses was a foundling. He
was rescued and adopted by an Egyptian princess. The Pharoah’s daughter would
have been a brown woman and if Moses was of the Hebrew people, it is likely
that he was brown too. Tiepolo paints them as white. The other women too are generously
bosomed white ladies. There are
Published on November 27, 2018 03:21