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Vault 3 Noah Analysis

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Vault 3: Noah (fig. 8 & 9)
The story focuses here on Adam’s descendant: Noah and the scene of The Building of the Ark. The builders represented in this scene are the sons of Noah, carpenters.
The second scene, The Flood, represent the action of God flooding the corrupt humanity as he had announced to Noah. We can easily see the humanity destined to be wipe out, struggling in the water, while Noah and his family are floating on the ark on the horizon. It appears here that Raphael had placed the most dynamic scenes in the second and third paintings as we have noticed before.
The next scene painted is The Leaving of the Ark, followed by The Sacrifice of Noah, where Noah sacrifices and offers to God, accompanied by his sons, a goat.
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Jacob’s Dream: in order to escape his brother’s vengeance, Jacob leaves his native land to go to Egypt: while walking in the desert, he faints and falls, his head hit a rock; what we see is a ladder reaching the top of the sky, with angels going up and down.
The second painting is The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel, when Jacob meets his uncle’s (Laban) daughter, Rachel, and falls in love with her. There is a second girl who is believed to be Rachel’s sister, Leah, but I cannot tell who is who. Laban is represented with a beard here: it is interesting to recall a remark by Nicole Dacos who notices Jacob is represented without any beards in the following or previous paintings : she explains that by an error of one of Raphael’s pupils who was charged to paint that painting, reinforcing the idea of Raphael giving them enough autonomy

Was Raphael responsible for the design of the Loggia?
Also, talking about the origin of the project raises the controversial question to what extend Raphael was responsible for the design of the Loggia. No one really knows or agrees to give a unique answer because no one knows how much independence was allowed to the assistants working for …show more content…

The first painting is The Finding of Moses: at the time where the Pharaoh had ordered the drowning of all Hebrew male babies, one mother could not perform that and left her baby in a basket on the Nile. Discovered by a Pharaoh’s daughter, that baby was Moses.
Following with The Burning Bush, Raphael shows us the story of Moses who finds a burning bush. While burning, he notices that the bush actually doesn’t consume: it is the Eternal One, who reveals to be God asking Moses to return to Egypt and get back the children of Israel to the land of Canaan.
Surprisingly, Raphael decided not to paint some of the famous passages of Moses’s life: the 10 plagues of Egypt for example.
The Passage of the Red Sea is the third painting: once Moses had gathered the children of Israel, God helps them at a point by dividing the Red Sea and letting them pass through it. The story would tell us how the Red Sea closed up when Pharaoh and his army followed Moses, metaphorically eating the army. The orange column is a pillar of fire, sending by God to lead Moses through the

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