Moses by Michelangelo – Weston Cast Court, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, England

Michelangelo’s Moses is depicted with horns on his head. He, like so many artists before him, were labouring under a misconception. This is believed to be because of the mistranslation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Latin by St Jerome. Moses is actually described as having "rays of the skin of his face", which Jerome in the Vulgate had translated as "horns". The mistake in translation is possible because the word "keren" in the Hebrew language can mean either "radiated (light)" or "grew horns".