Horns of Moses
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The Horns of Moses are an iconographic convention common in Latin Christianity whereby Moses was presented as having two horns on his head, later replaced by rays of light. The idea comes from a trans
Italian fresco, c. 1500
Michelangelo's Moses, detail of the horned head
Moses with horns, with the Golden Calf, in a 13th-century illuminated manuscript, by William de Brailes
Moses strikes the rock, 1350-1375, Fulda MS of the World Chronicle by Rudolf von Ems
Finding of Moses
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The Finding of Moses, sometimes called "Moses in the Bulrushes", "Moses Saved from the Waters", or other variants, is the story in chapter 2 of the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible of the finding in
Horns of Moses
…that Moses' rays were given to him when he received the tablets of the law, and by the 19th century some images of the infant Moses in scenes of the Finding of Moses feature the rays. Depictions of a horned Moses stem from the description of Moses' face as "cornuta" ("horned") in the Latin Vulgate translation of the…
Fresco in the Dura-Europos synagogue, about 244 CE
Paulus Bor and Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom, 1630s
Orazio Gentileschi, Prado, 1633, one of two versions
The Exposition of Moses, as his mother casts him off. The princess's party is further down the bank. Nicolas Poussin