For the many readers of this Corner who are also amateur art historians, a news flash: In putting horns on Moses, Michelangelo, as half a dozen readers have now pointed out, was following a well-established artistic convention, based (as explained in my posting of a couple of days ago) on a mistranslation of “rays” or “light” from the Hebrew into Latin.

Want proof? Take a look at the sculpture of Moses in Claus Sluter’s “Well of Moses,” which Sluter completed some 70 years before Michelangelo was born. And when I say take a look, I mean take a look. Those horns are nasty.