Moses sits with the tablets of the Law under his right arm, fingers twisting through his long beard, head turned sharply to one side. Michelangelo carved him for the tomb of Pope Julius II, a project first planned in 1505 with over forty statues and finished, much reduced, in 1545. Moses became the centrepiece of the final tomb.
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The horns on his head follow the Latin Vulgate, which describes Moses' face as "horned" on his return from Sinai, a reading of a Hebrew word also understood as "shining".
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