Michelangelo’s famous statue of Moses at Saint Peter in Chains in Rome depicts Moses with two horns. Most claim that the horns of Moses go back to Saint Jerome’s “translation error” in the Latin Vulgate.
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The Moses (Italian: Mosè; c. 1513–1515) is a sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in the church 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.
The initial design by Michelangelo was massive, featuring more than 40 statues. Moses would have been placed on a tier almost 4 meters high; in the final design, it sits in the center of the bottom tier.
I nterestingly, though, by the time Michelangelo was working on Julius II’s tomb, it was pretty widely known that the idea of a horned Moses stemmed from an overly literal translation. Which, of course, raises the question of why Michelangelo chose to portray his Moses with horns anyway.
Well of Moses, 1395 museum in Dijon (photo credit http://www.wga.hu) Whatever the reasons, Michelangelo’s Moses is far from the Charlton Heston version in the movie, The Ten Commandments. In the scene where he comes down from the mountain, his hair is streaked in white and his facial expressions mean business. He radiates light, but no horns.
Moses by Michelangelo, sculpture of Michelangelo' Moses in Rome.
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Did Moses actually sprout horns? … Why is Moses depicted with horns? … and you’ll find that the subject has sprouted a pair of horns. Michelangelo’s sculpture …
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