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Moses (Michelangelo)

Local name: Mosè

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Moses (Michelangelo)
Photo: Livioandronico2013 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Moses (Michelangelo) is a public artwork in Rome. Access is free.

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 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.

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