Here is the solution the proposed challenge last week. is a fresco by Botticelli, tests Moses, made for one of the walls of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV in 1481.
As I said many times they are actually included in a single work, so he preferred to speak about the character in question: Moses, that we have the opportunity to talk about each of the scenes further.
The iconographic type varies with time: early Christian art represents him as a young man and beardless, but past those early days than usual will appear as a mature, bearded man carrying bifida in their hands Tables Soon the law, he also recognized by two small "horns" that appear on his forehead. Perhaps the most famous work is so is the Moses to Michelangelo carved for the tomb of Pope Julius II, in the church of San Pietro in Chains (left). The origin is in St. Jerome's translation of the Bible was the Vulgate. Thus, although the said original Moses came down from Mount Sinai after speaking with God, his face glowing, Jerome translated "horns" which meant "lightning" and, although Thomas Aquinas struggled with this interpretation, had no success. Moreover, even he has been represented in this way in moments before his ascent to Sinai, which is clearly against the biblical tradition.
Although the Middle Ages moralize these bumps, referring to them, Moses could drive the characters that could mean bad, in the sixteenth century, the Counter-Church, fearing attacks by Protestant began to make them disappear.
Source: Louis Reau, Iconography of Christian art. Old Testament Barcelona, \u200b\u200bRowan, 1996, pp. 212-214
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