Moses Receiving the Tables of the Law (detail)
by TINTORETTO, Oil on canvas
On the peak of cloud-capped Mount Sinai, Moses, his arms outstretched in a Christ-like attitude, receives the two Tables of the Law brought to him by God and ten angels, some of them, as with Michelangelo’s angels, without wings. In the blaze of God’s aureole, Moses seems to become an astral body in an effect suggesting the transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor.