According to the book of Exodus, Moses was born to a Hebrew mother who hid him when the Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed, and ended up being adopted into the Egyptian royal family. After killing an Egyptian slave master, he fled and became a shepherd, and was later commanded by God to deliver the Hebrews from slavery. After the Ten Plagues were unleashed on Egypt, he led the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt, through the Red Sea, where they wandered in the desert for 40 years. Despite living to 120, he did not enter the Land of Israel, as he disobeyed God when instructed on how to bring forth water from a rock in the desert.
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (January 8, 1836, Dronrijp, the Netherlands, – June 25, 1912 Wiesbaden, Germany) was one of the most renowned painters of late nineteenth century Britain. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky. Universally admired for his superb draftsmanship and depictions of classical antiquity, during his lifetime, he fell into disrepute after his death and only in the last thirty years has his work been re-evaluated for its importance within nineteenth-century English art.
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