Moses (Michelangelo)
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Moses is a sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance artist Michelangelo, housed in the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. Commissioned in 1505 by Pope Julius II for his tomb, it depicts the b
Michelangelo's Moses
Michelangelo's Moses
Michelangelo's Moses, detail
Detail of the statue's bicorned head
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
Moses (Michelangelo)
…housed in the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. Commissioned in 1505 by Pope Julius II for his tomb, it depicts the biblical figure Moses with horns on his head, based on a description in chapter 34 of Exodus in the Vulgate, the Latin translation of the Bible used at that time. Some scholars believe the use of…
Italian fresco, c. 1500
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