Michelangelo Buonarroti died in Rome following a brief illness in 1564 ... Among them, the artist’s rendering of Moses is the clear scene-stealer. With his penchant for drama, Michelangelo ...

Michelangelo's Moses, Basilica di San Pietro in Vincoli ... cardinals and popes at his Rome villa. For diners who sat in the Loggia di Amore e Psiche, Raphael's ceiling frescoes painted in ...

Our destination: the famous statue of Moses. One befuddled visitor ... It was unfinished when Michelangelo was summoned to Rome by Pope Julius II in 1505, but was still accepted by Taddei.

Nearly every visitor to Rome who has read his guidebook wants to see Michelangelo’s “Moses”. The church which contains the monument of Julius 11 of which the statue of Moses is the central figure, San ...

Michelangelo’s Moses came on the heels of his David, the public success of which had put him on Pope Julius’s radar. Commissioned in 1505 by the pope for his tomb, the work represents a ...

Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of stubby horns. Michelangelo wasn’t the first artist to depict ...

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