Michelangelo’s Moses, part of the tomb of Pope Julius II
See those little horns at the top of Moses’ head? It’s a bit of a misunderstanding. In the old Latin Vulgate Bible, they used the term “cornuta facies” which can be translated either as “horned face” or “radiant face” to describe how Moses’ looked after he chatted with God up on Mount Sinai. The term was intended to be a metaphor, but was translated more literally, and we got Moses with horns instead of Moses with a shiny bright face.
So, those little horns on Michelangelo’s Moses were actually supposed to be a radiant face. That’s a 500 year old cringer!
You’re reading a V. Note, written by Ruthie V, the director of the Seattle Artist League. The League is an art school for the busy nurse, tech geek, and mom with a long lost art degree. We offer engaging online classes in drawing and painting. Join us! Find your class: https://www.seattleartistleague.com/product-category/d-online-classes/
If you have taken or taught a class at the Seattle Artist League in the last year, you are invited to submit up to three artworks to our online show. We can’t promise we’ll show every piece, but we will show at least one artwork per person. This show is about you as an artist, so you …
Thursdays are vocabulary days for our 30 Day Challenge, and our inspiration for today comes from A Word A Day, by Anu Garg Scrooch PRONUNCIATION: (skrooch) MEANING:verb intr.: To crouch or huddle.verb tr.: To squeeze. ETYMOLOGY:A dialect variant scrouge (to squeeze or crowd), perhaps influenced by crouch. Earliest documented use: 1844. USAGE:“We asked the model to scrooch down so …
This challenge was from Catherine Lepp, our newest instructor from the New York Studio School: draw the head of a classical sculpture using only circles and straight lines.
I took a little pause from posting 30SAL Challenge favorite entries so we could get the new class listings online. Voila! All of our spring classes and workshops are now ready for registration. Find your class. They’re already selling! 30SAL Challenge favorites coming soon! There will be many adorations, and prizes. But first, I sleep. …
A Cringe Worthy Mistake
See those little horns at the top of Moses’ head? It’s a bit of a misunderstanding. In the old Latin Vulgate Bible, they used the term “cornuta facies” which can be translated either as “horned face” or “radiant face” to describe how Moses’ looked after he chatted with God up on Mount Sinai. The term was intended to be a metaphor, but was translated more literally, and we got Moses with horns instead of Moses with a shiny bright face.
So, those little horns on Michelangelo’s Moses were actually supposed to be a radiant face. That’s a 500 year old cringer!
You’re reading a V. Note, written by Ruthie V, the director of the Seattle Artist League. The League is an art school for the busy nurse, tech geek, and mom with a long lost art degree. We offer engaging online classes in drawing and painting. Join us! Find your class: https://www.seattleartistleague.com/product-category/d-online-classes/
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I took a little pause from posting 30SAL Challenge favorite entries so we could get the new class listings online. Voila! All of our spring classes and workshops are now ready for registration. Find your class. They’re already selling! 30SAL Challenge favorites coming soon! There will be many adorations, and prizes. But first, I sleep. …