5Moses – Michelangelo

The church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome has a statue of Moses. When Pope Julius II died in 1545, he asked for a statue of Moses to be commissioned for his burial tomb, which was finished in 1545.

Even Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures could not match Michelangelo’s masterpiece, David, when he completed the sculpture. As soon as Pope Julius II heard about Michelangelo’s work on David, he hired him. A total of over 40 sculptures were proposed by Michelangelo before Julius II died in 1513. In front of a statue of St. Paul, Moses would have stood on a tier approximately 12 feet 3 inches high.

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