B Proper 16, Art for August 26, 2012

ADEMOLLO, Luigi
(b. 1764, Milano, d. 1849, Firenze)
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Transportation of the Ark of the Covenant Containing the Tablets of the Law
1816
Fresco
Room of the Ark, Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
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Note: This depicts an earlier transport of the Arc to Jerusalem not today’s reading of bringing the Arc to Solomon’s Temple.

Related art commentary by Hovak Najarian.