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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] Roma province (province), Lazio (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (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
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