ID: 700002864 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700002864	Record Type: Movable Work

Moses (sculpture (visual works); Buonarroti, Michelangelo (Italian sculptor, painter, and arc...; 1513-1515; Rome (Roma, Lazio, Italia, Europe, World, Top of the TGN hie...)

Note: Sculptural decoration from tomb of Pope Julius II at the San Pietro in Vincoli church in Rome. The depiction of Moses reflects a passage in the Latin Vulgate translation of Exodus that describes his face as "cornuta" ("horned").

Titles:

Moses (preferred,C,U,RP,English,U,U)

Moise (C,U,Italian,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

sculpture (visual works) [300047090] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

sculptures (preferred)

Italian art

Creation Date: 1513-1515

Creator Display:

Buonarroti, Michelangelo (Italian sculptor, painter, and architect, 1475-1564) [preferred,VP]

sculptor Buonarroti, Michelangelo (Italian sculptor, painter, architect, 1475-1564) [500010654]

patron Julius II, Pope (Italian pope, patron, 1443-1513) [500281862]

Locations:

Current: Roma [7000874] (Geographic)

Display Materials: Marble

	marble (rock) [300011443]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), metamorphic rock)

	carving (processes) [300053149]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <subtractive processes and techniques>, <carving and carving techniques>)

Dimensions: 235 cm

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	High Renaissance [300021142] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods>, Renaissance)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Moses [901000167]
	.....((Old Testament characters, Old Testament iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Outside Iconography:

	Code: 71 Term: Old Testament
	.....Source: Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-)

Related Works:

	depicted in .... [Moise by Michael Angelo, central sculpture of the Tomb of Julius the Second] [700006960]
	..........albumen print; Fratelli Alinari (Italian photography studio and publisher, ...; about 1860-1870; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 84.XP.218.68

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Moses	........ [VP]
	........ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 14 April 2014
Moise	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ Panofsky, First Two Projects of Michelangelo's Tomb of Julius II, The Art Bulletin (1937) 562

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

....................... Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 14 April 2014

....................... Grove Art Online (2008-) accessed 14 April 2014

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Britannica Student Encyclopedia Online (2002-) accessed 14 April 2014