# Brazen Serpent

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PELLEGRINI, Giovanni Antonio](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pellegrini-giovanni-antonio-r5fdb29bcc984ed>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Oil on canvas

## Commentary

This painting is an impressive example of the artist&#39;s heroic and still youthful mode. The elderly and bearded Jews, their younger, muscular companions, and the bright highlights sharply cutting dark shadows indicate Pellegrini&#39;s training with Paolo Pagani.

## Related artworks

- [Allegory of Painting](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pellegrini-giovanni-antonio-r5fdb29bcc984ed/allegory-of-painting-r636e589fc9e0ef>)
- [Allegory of Sculpture](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pellegrini-giovanni-antonio-r5fdb29bcc984ed/allegory-of-sculpture-r32bec5d422c812>)
- [Allegory](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pellegrini-giovanni-antonio-r5fdb29bcc984ed/allegory-r4dcf2efea69350>)
- [Allegory](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pellegrini-giovanni-antonio-r5fdb29bcc984ed/allegory-r9bfd8f3664b177>)
- [Apollo and Daphne](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pellegrini-giovanni-antonio-r5fdb29bcc984ed/apollo-and-daphne-r62df4ae6bf3f98>)
- [Bedroom ceiling](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pellegrini-giovanni-antonio-r5fdb29bcc984ed/bedroom-ceiling-r6390708916410c>)
- [Christ Healing the Paralytic](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pellegrini-giovanni-antonio-r5fdb29bcc984ed/christ-healing-the-paralytic-r205f72ae6341b8>)
- [Danaë and the Shower of Gold](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pellegrini-giovanni-antonio-r5fdb29bcc984ed/dana-and-the-shower-of-gold-rf1cdac88d23414>)
- [Decoration of the portego](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pellegrini-giovanni-antonio-r5fdb29bcc984ed/decoration-of-the-portego-r7f3259dec7fc41>)
- [Decoration of the portego](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pellegrini-giovanni-antonio-r5fdb29bcc984ed/decoration-of-the-portego-r9a5f84ebce3018>)
- [Decoration of the portego](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pellegrini-giovanni-antonio-r5fdb29bcc984ed/decoration-of-the-portego-rbfe1abdce7c7d7>)
- [Mucius Scaevola before Porsenna](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/pellegrini-giovanni-antonio-r5fdb29bcc984ed/mucius-scaevola-before-porsenna-r56492a43e42486>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)