The Error That Gave Moses Horns And Nobody Corrected For 1000 Years

Michelangelo finished carving this sculpture, stepped back, and hit it with a hammer. Not in frustration. Not by accident. He struck the knee hard enough to leave a permanent mark that is still visible today, and he shouted at it to speak — because he was so convinced he had brought marble to life that the only explanation for why it was not moving was that it was choosing not to. In this video we explore the most intense sculpture Michelangelo ever made, the thousand year old translation error that gave Moses horns that should not be there, the forty year tomb commission that was scaled back so many times it became a shadow of what it was supposed to be, and why Sigmund Freud spent three weeks sitting in a Roman church trying to understand why this sculpture made him feel the way it did. Because Michelangelo called this his greatest work. And he made the Pietà, the David, and the Sistine Chapel ceiling. That is not a statement to take lightly.