The ''Test of Fire of Moses'' is a painting by the

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Giorgione Giorgione (, , ; born Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco; 1477–78 or 1473–74 – 17 September 1510) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school during the High Renaissance, who died in his thirties. He is known for the elusive poetic qualit ...

created ''c.'' 1502–1505. It is housed in the

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. The work is dimensionally and thematically similar to its

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'' ''The Judgement of Solomon'', also in the Uffizi, and is dated to the years immediately after Giorgione's moving to Venice. The episode is taken from the

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, and was probably commissioned by an acculturated person who was not entirely following to the official Roman Catholic positions. The horizontal setting is similar to that in

Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Bellini (; c. 1430 – 26 November 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. He was raised in the household of Jacopo Bellini, formerly thought to have been his father ...

's ''Holy Allegory'', also in the Uffizi, and allows the painter to give importance to the landscape. In the latter's care for detail are evident influences from Northern Europe painting.

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Image of ''Moses Undergoes Trial by Fire''
next to the ''Judgement of Solomon'' at

Uffizi Gallery The Uffizi Gallery (; it, Galleria degli Uffizi, italic=no, ) is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Test of Fire of Moses 1500s paintings Paintings by Giorgione Paintings in the Uffizi Paintings depicting Moses