Michelangelo’s Moses has horns due to
a. a mistranslation of the Bible from Hebrew to Latin.
b. Renaissance belief that horns stood for power.
c. a personal act of revenge on Pope Julius for ordering him to paint the Sistine ceiling.
d. a convention for showing Moses’s anger at the Hebrews for worshipping an idol.
Answer: a
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