2 King Hezekiah, whose life is chronicled in the Bible, played a crucial role in Jewish history by reopening the Temple of Solomon and destroying the bronze snake statue commanded by God to Moses.
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 ...
The Swiss painter and writer Henry Fuseli believed it to predate Michelangelo, theorizing it influenced Michelangelo's sculpture of Moses. Throughout the first half of the 19th century ...
Moses had left the Israelites for 40 days and ... “It’s like someone built a statue for the singular purpose of idolizing wealth, and Christians happily take selfies in front of it,” wrote ...
7, 1997, officers responded to the area of the Moses statue in Washington Park for reports of a dead baby. A park worker ...
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