Moses and Aaron Collecting Alms for the Building of the Temple
by GARGIULO, Domenico, Fresco
The picture shows the lunette fresco in the Tesoro Vecchio in the Certosa di San Martino.
Gargiulo worked for the Carthusians in Naples over a period of more than twenty years. He painted the lunette in the so-called Tesoro Vecchio, whose subject, Moses and Aaron Collecting Alms for the Building of the Temple, reflects the function of the room. In this lunette Gargiulo already presents the compositional and stylistic features that would characterize his paintings in the lay brothers’ choir in the Certosa.