Lunchtime lecture: Michelangelo’s Moses – creating the impossible out of stone.
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Michelangelo’s colossal figure of Moses is an outstanding example of the High Renaissance ideal of divine beauty, which blends a perfect, idealized form with deep human and spiritual emotion.
The statue is one of the great masterpieces of Western art because of its incredible realism, psychological depth, and technical virtuosity. It is widely praised for its anatomical accuracy—such as the precisely carved muscles in the forearms—and for its capturing of complex emotions like anger, disappointment, and self-control in the Moses figure’s face and posture.
This powerful combination of lifelike detail and emotional depth is what sets it apart from all other artworks of its time.
Prof. Duffey discusses these magnificent artworks in full detail in this lecture.
Date: Thursday 29 October 2026 at 12:00
Cost: R50,00 per person (tickets are payable in cash at the door)
Booking is essential (a maximum of 60 people can be accommodated)
RSVP before 28 October 2026 by sending an email to [email protected] or phone/text Nandi on 083 288 5117
Venue: Association of Arts Pretoria, 173 Mackie Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
The statue is one of the great masterpieces of Western art because of its incredible realism, psychological depth, and technical virtuosity. It is widely praised for its anatomical accuracy—such as the precisely carved muscles in the forearms—and for its capturing of complex emotions like anger, disappointment, and self-control in the Moses figure’s face and posture.
This powerful combination of lifelike detail and emotional depth is what sets it apart from all other artworks of its time.
Prof. Duffey discusses these magnificent artworks in full detail in this lecture.
Date: Thursday 29 October 2026 at 12:00
Cost: R50,00 per person (tickets are payable in cash at the door)
Booking is essential (a maximum of 60 people can be accommodated)
RSVP before 28 October 2026 by sending an email to [email protected] or phone/text Nandi on 083 288 5117
Venue: Association of Arts Pretoria, 173 Mackie Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, Pretoria
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173 Mackie Street, Nieuw Muckleneuk, 0181 Pretoria, South Africa, 169 Mackie St, Tshwane, 0181, South Africa, Pretoria
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