# Moses Receiving the Tables [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PONTORMO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Drawing ## Commentary Pontormo executed several drawings in preparation of the frescoes of the choir, or great chapel of the Medici family, in the basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence. This decoration was the artist's last commission \(1546-56\). These drawings are the only surviving evidence of the decorative cycle entrusted to Pontormo by Pier Francesco Ricci, the private secretary and major-domo of Cosimo I, which were irremediably destroyed in 1742 on the occasion of restoration work inside the church. Moses Receiving the Tables is one of the surviving drawings. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve at Work]() - [Alessandro de' Medici in Profile]() - [Alessandro de' Medici]() - [Alessandro de' Medici]() - [Anatomical study]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Birth Tray \(back\)]() - [Birth Tray \(front\)]() - [Christ before Pilate]() - [Christ the Judge with the Creation of Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()