Why did Michelangelo portray his marble sculpture with horns?
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1. What scripture verse was translated incorrectly (What did the incorrect verse say)\n\nHERE IS THE WHOLE STORY, FOR THOSE WHO MAY NOT KNOW:::\n\n          Exodus 34:28-35  28 And he was there with the \n          Etrnl forty days and forty nights; he did \n          neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote \n          upon the tables the words of the covenant, the \n          ten commandments. 29  And it came to pass, when \n          Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two \n          tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came \n          down from the mount, that Moses wist not that \n          the skin of his face shone while he talked with  \n          him.  כי קרן עור פניו בדברו אתו׃\n          30  And when Aaron and all the children of \n          Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face \n          shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. \n          31  And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and \n          all the rulers of the congregation returned unto \n          him: and Moses talked with them. 32  And \n          afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: \n          and he gave them in commandment all that the \n          Etrnl had spoken with him in mount Sinai. 33  \n          And till Moses had done speaking with them, he \n          put a vail on his face. 34  But when Moses went \n          in before the Etrnl to speak with him, he took \n          the vail off, until he came out. And he came \n          out, and spake unto the children of Israel that \n          which he was commanded. 35  And the children of \n          Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of \n          Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon \n          his face again, until he went in to speak with\n          him. \n\nThe verse incorrectly translated is, of course, Exodus 34:29 above, and i have supplied the Hebrew. The word mistranslated is the word, 'KEREN,' meaning 'beam,' like a beam of light. Unfortunately, the word also means horn, as in a 'horn of plenty.'\n\n2. and what is the correct translation?\n\nMay own translation:::\n\nExo 34:29 ויהי ברדת משׁה מהר סיני ושׁני לחת העדת ביד־משׁה ברדתו מן־ההר ומשׁה לא־ידע כי קרן עור פניו בדברו אתו׃\n\nAnd when Moses came down from the Mountain of Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in the hand of Moses, when he came down from the Mountain, and Moses did not know that beams of light (keren or) shone from his face when he spoke with Him.\n\nAdditional information:: When i was a kid, i actually had Christians come up to me, asking me where my horns were? Their ministers and their families had taught them that the Jews actually had horns, based on the New Testament quotation, when Jesus calls The Jews children of Satan!!!!
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An artist may have their own interpretation but that is simply their imagination, not the truth. \n\nIn that day and age, it makes no sense to use a wooden box. The earlierst known version of the legend says it was a storage jar, which would resemble a large urn and be made of clay or similar material.
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I am not sure what you are referring to, by "the Jewish Holy Figure"?\n\nGd forbids the Jews from having any figure, sculpture, or artwork that is worshipped, as that would make it idolatry, if that helps.\n\n          Exodus 20:3-3 3 Thou shalt have no other \n          gods before me. 4  Thou shalt not make \n          unto thee any graven image, or any \n          likeness of any thing that is in heaven \n          above, or that is in the earth beneath, \n          or that is in the water under the earth:
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mythological figure created by people to avoid facing facts
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Some of the answers in this are ridiculous.  In the "G" lecture of the second degree, the candidate is told that it represents "geometry" which is the Liberal Art/Science most revered by Masons, and that, more importantly it is the initial letter of God.  both of these things are discussed in the same 5 minute lecture.  Sorry to dissapoint the answerer who had a whole theory worked up.
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You are mixing Saint Francis of Assisi with Saint Thomas Aquinas.\n\nSaint Thomas usually is depicted with the sunburst medallion around his chest.  \n\nThe dove could represent the Holy Spirit.
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was a Renaissance artist, sculptor and poet.\n\n \nMichelangelo Buonarroti, by Marcello Venusti.Michelangelo is famous for creating the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, as well as the Last Judgment over the altar, and The Martyrdom of St. Peter and The Conversion of St. Paul in the Vatican's Cappella Paolina; among his many sculptures are those of David and the Pietà, as well as the big man Doni Virgin, Bacchus, Moses, Rachel, Leah, and members of the Medici family; he also designed the dome of St. Peter's Basilica.\n\nand \n\nLeonardo da Vinci\nArtist / Scientist\nLeonardo da Vinci is best remembered as the painter of the Mona Lisa (1503-1506) and The Last Supper (1495). But he's almost equally famous for his astonishing multiplicity of talents: he dabbled in architecture, sculpture, engineering, geology, hydraulics and the military arts, all with success, and in his spare time doodled parachutes and flying machines that resembled inventions of the 19th and 20th centuries. He made detailed drawings of human anatomy which are still highly regarded today. Leonardo also was quirky enough to write notebook entries in mirror (backwards) script, a trick which kept many of his observations from being widely known until decades after his death. \nExtra credit: Leonardo da Vinci means "Leonardo from the town of Vinci," and thus he is generally referred to in short as "Leonardo" rather than as "da Vinci"... He received a fresh burst of public interest in 2003 with the publication of The Da Vinci Code, the bestselling thriller by author Dan Brown.\n\nLeonardo da Vinci joins U.S. president James Garfield in our loop Upside Down and Backwards.\n\nOther multi-talented types include Michelangelo, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Edison and Bucky Fuller.\n\nand\n\n(1452-1519)\nDiscover Leonardo da Vinci, a man well beyond his time. The following pages contain pictures, drawings and facts about the life of Leonardo you can find only at this place. Leonardo da Vinci was a renaissance painter, architect, engineer, mathematician and philosopher, a genius the world has never seen again so far.\nStart your virtual journey in Anchiano (Italy) where Leonardo da Vinci was born in April 1452.  \n  "Leonardo da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep" \nSigmund Freud   \nStart in the year 1452 and discover the enigma of his genius.
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AWESOME concept....\nIn other words, when he was manifest in human form, did he BEHAVE like a human?\nA tasteful sense of humor has to be one of the most fundamental cornerstones of holiness. Now that sounds weird...\n......Until you consider how much intellect and spirit it takes to abstract out an idea into a truly humorous concept!\nOf course his holiness is expressed in all the ways you can imagine, but I do believe that included a KIND and SUBTLE sense of humor. Sure he must have enjoyed lovable jokes.... he loved laughter!!
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Pete is Saint Peter. Michaelangelo was painting a picture of St. Peter and wasn't finished. King John of England was furious of how long it was taking for him to paint it and was ready to stop him. This was a famous phrase by him. "For Pete's sake!" He was begging King John to let him finish the painting.
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In the Roman era, soldiers often put decorations on top of their helmets.  These were to make the soldier look bigger and scarier in combat, and I suppose to look good before the cheering crowds back at the forum.  I don't think that they had any particular practical function.
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The mark of the beast is the fact that people are going to worship the devil when he comes pretending to be Jesus. When one is taken away in the field and the other stays, this means that the person that is taken away because she goes to worship the false Jesus.\n\nRevelations  13:11 \n"And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon."\n\nThe two horns represent power like the Lamb (Jesus). But, he spake as a dragon (devil).\nBasically he looked like Jesus, but, spake like the devil. This is how people worship the devil. Because the devil is pretending to be Jesus.
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The Greeks prefered to use marble and limestone in their buildings. Cement is one of the three components of concrete, along with water and an aggregate. Concrete was not to become a popular or successful building material until the Romans employed it in nearly everything they built. \n\nThe Greeks had a passion for proportions. Every building or sculpture was designed with a set of rules governing how the pieces should be sized in relation to each other. This makes their buildings attratctive, if a little formal.\n\nThe principle element of Greek architecture is the column. Columns developed through the ages, and eventually evolved into three main types. Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. These are listed in order of increasing complexity and ornamentation. Columns often have grooves in the shaft called flutings. Columns sit on a base, and terminate in a capital. Columns were often connected by a large triangular section called a pediment. Pediments were often filled with sculpture depicting mythical events. Other parts of the building were decorated with friezes, triglyphs and metopes, and many other features. Every part of a Greek building has a name, and it would take the next four days to list and explain them all. This very short list should be enough for your question.
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I know the Incas did it a lot too...The Peabody Museum at Yale had a Machu Picchu exhibit a couple of years back and they had some deformed skull replicas and how they did it.
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The devil is identified as the goat enclosed within a downpointing pentagram.  This became the official sigil of the Church of Satan, but they did not invent this sign; nor is this sign ancient.\n\nThe idol of a winged goat-man with a reversed pentagram on its head is called Baphomet, etymologically deriving its name from eastern cultures (possible Arabic meaning "Father of Understanding" or Seat of Understanding").  It first became known thanks to the Knights Templars and their famous trial for idolatry.  \n\nThere have been some scholars who beleive Christianity co-opted the figure of Dionysus, Greek God of wine, ecstacy and divine life, to suppress his worship by likening him to Satan.  Be/c Dionysus was also known as Dionysus Soter, Dionysus Eleftherios, etc (Dionysus Savior, Dionysus Liberator) because he was the main figure int he Eleusinian Mysteries and his function was to grant salvation to the "soul"..... just as Jesus would come to pronounce in later centuries, early Christian circles co-opted the imagery of his known familiars (goats, namely satyrs, mythical half man-half goat figures) and likened it to a representation of Satan to crush the Dionysian worship.\n\nThe pentagram is an ancient symbol, best known from the Pythagoreans, but used by many cultures in antiquity....  Where the Pythagoreans used the words Hygeia in each of the quarters of the pentagram, meaning Good Health, or a loose form of the contemporary pagan "BLESSED BE", the Pentagram was reversed by Satanists to demonstrate the anti-world and all of the qualities advocated by their "reversing" or ridiculing or literally "turning the mainstream conception of things on its head".  They include other lettering in the place of HYGEIA....\n\nIn any event,\nFor a good article, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet
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Um, it's a well-known statue.  Your question is not worded properly and really doesn't make sense.
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Hmmm, very good question. I have heard of this before, but I have never encountered anything that actually proves he did. I have also heard he had fell off of a horse and got his fingers caught in the bridle, which in turn, ripped them off. Actually, I think he was buried with ALL his fingers. Because if you look at his latest portraits, he has all of his fingers...although someone could have incorrectly painted him.
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He's an illusionist.. even he says that. In every show, he looks awesome. You pay too much attention on attire. Just watch the show and enjoy it. He's catholic too. In one show I saw him do the sign of the cross. And him and his family had prayed on the show before.