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The Moses (c. 1513–1515) is a sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti housed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. Commissioned in 1505 by Pope Julius II for his tomb it depicts the Biblical figure Moses with horns on his head based on a description in the Vulgate the Latin translation of the Bible used at that time.
