Why Did Moses Leave Egypt – Moses Leaving for Egypt is a fresco by the Italian Raissance painter Pietro Perugino and his workshop, executed around 1482 and located in the Sistine Chapel, Rome. It presents a journey of the prophet Moses.
The commission of the work originated in 1480, when Perugino decorated a chapel in the Old Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome. Pope Sixtus IV was satisfied with his work, and decided to commission him also the decoration of the new Chapel that he built in the Vatican Palace. Due to the size of the work, Perugino was later …