Moses descended from Mount Sinai with two treaty signs in his hand. Rable was glowing because he spoke, but he wasn’t aware of it. When Harun and the Israelites saw the shining face of Moses, they were afraid to approach him. Moses called them over. Harun and all the leaders of the Israeli community gathered around him. Moses spoke to them. Then everyone approached him. Moses gave them all the commandments the Lord had reported to him on Mount Sinai.

After finishing her speech, she wore a veil on her face. But whenever he appeared before the Lord to speak, he would raise the veil until he left. Upon his return, he informed the Israelites about his commands, and the Israelites saw his glowing face. Then Moses wore the veil again until Rable saw him.

(Exodus 34)

When we look at Michelangelo’s Moses, we see an animation of this scene. The Ruling of Moses (Mosè) is Pope II, who is ‘hiding’ today in a small church called San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. It is a sarcophagus built for the grave of Julius. In fact, in a large building consisting of 40 sculptures, the Moses statue, which is planned to sit 3.74 meters above, appears to sit in the middle of the lower row in its final form.

As described in the Bible’s Exit from Egypt section, Moses, who got down from the mountain after taking the ten commandments, got angry when he saw the bull sculpture he made by his people and worshiped him, he threw the tablets in his hands and destroyed the bull sculpture by destroying it (Exodus 32). Then he went to the Lord again and returned with the plates. We see this moment in this statue. Moses holds the tablets under his right arm and caresses his beard with his left hand. While his right foot is firmly on the ground, his left foot is ready to move at any time.

Looking at her body is quite vigorous but also wise, it looks almost like a god. His hair and beard are long, like those in the statues of the sea gods, made in the polytheistic times, and he has two horns on his head. The reason for this may be the willingness of Michelangelo’s biblical error to appear. As stated in the passage mentioned above; “Moses came down from Mount Sinai with two treaty signs in his hand. Rable was glowing because he spoke, but he was not aware of it.” (Exodus 34:29) Michelangelo placed two horns at the head of Moses, as the word “ luminescence ” was said in Hebrew and the word Zulkarneyn (two horns) was compared. It is possible to see a flow over Moses’ clothes; It is not strange to hope that, with various shadow plays and craftsmanship, he can act as an almost bloody alive man. It is also possible to sense the resentment and anger towards his people in his gaze. According to the story, Michelangelo came across after finishing the statue and said “Speak!” he even said, “Stand up!” he called. Looking at the statue, it is really possible to think of the idea that it will get up and act towards us at any moment. In addition, with her hair, beard, horns and shape, she looks to our eyes as a god rather than a normal person. For this reason, the papacy has thrown the statue out of sight in Rome, but even today many people, especially people of Jewish origin, visit this little church to see this statue. The most famous of these visits is Freud’s visit.

Moses turned, and came down from the mountain with two stone plates with the terms of the treaty. The front and back sides of the plates were also inscribed. God had made them, the engraving inscriptions on them were his writing. When Joshua heard the shouting people, Moses said, “The sound of war is coming from the camp!” said. Musa replied: “This is neither the voice of the defeated nor the defeated; I hear tunes. ” As Moses approached the camp, he saw the calf and the people playing; He was very angry. He tossed the stone plates in his hand and smashed them at the foot of the mountain. He took the calf they made and burned it, crushed it into powder, then sprinkled it into the water and made it to the Israelites. (Exodus 32)

The statue of Moses, which Freud visited during his Roman trip in 1901, caused a manifestation of a discomfort like Stendhal Syndrome in him. In fact, in his letter to his family, “What a pain it is not possible to live in Rome constantly!” he wrote. In his letter to his wife during his trip in 1912, he states that he goes to church every day and sees the statue, and that he intends to write an essay on it. This thought becomes the basis of the book Moses Dened and Monotheism, published in 1939.

In his work on Moses, Freud recounts that the statue depicts 32, not Exit 34, from Egypt. Which is not a very wrong idea; Anger and frustration in Moses’ eyes signal that he is ready for an explosion at any time, as he hugs his beard and holds the tablets in order to hold himself.

As a result; Michelangelo’s description of this Moses continues to fascinate people like the first day, even after 500 years have passed.