They were given titles only after a maquette (at leas) had been made. In some cases the work had already been put together as a full-scale mockup or fabricated in steel before its image became clear and it was named. Occasionally titles .came to me all at once. Moses is an instance of the latter. The parallel uprights suggested the horns in Michelangelo’s Moses. We know that these strange attributes were the result of a misunderstanding by the Latin Vulgate of the Hebrew ‘shone,’ derived from the word meaning ‘horn,’ and used figuratively to denote rays or flashes of light proceeding from a luminous object, ., the head of MosesMistranslation.
