# Joseph Interpreting Pharoah's Dreams [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TRIBOLO, Niccolò]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary In 1525-27 Tribolo collaborated on façade sculpture for San Petronio, Bologna, where his portal relief of Joseph Interpreting Pharoah's Dreams, part of the Old Testament reliefs, is located on the right pillar of the right lateral portal. This relief combines recollections of the antique Laocoön \(Museo Pio Clementino, Vatican\) and Michelangelo with an archaising quality inspired by Jacopo della Quercia's sculptures on the middle portal. ## Related artworks - [Fountain of Hercules and Antaeus \(detail\)]() - [Fountain of Hercules and Antaeus \(detail\)]() - [Fountain of Hercules and Antaeus]() - [Fountain of Hercules and Antaeus]() - [Fountain of the Labyrinth]() - [Marriage of the Virgin]() - [Pan]() - [Pavement decoration]() - [Right lateral portal \(detail\)]() - [The Amphitheatre]() - [The Amphitheatre]() - [The Goddess of Nature]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()