Joël Person: Moses’s anger - The strength of the line
An exhibition of Joël Person’s drawings was held in the library from February 1st to April 18th, 2014.
And, indeed, I can recollect my own disillusionment when, during my first visits to St Pietro in Vincoli, I used to sit down in front of the statue in the expectation that I would now see how it would start up on its raised foot, dash the Tables of the Law to the ground and let fly its wrath. Nothing of the kind happened. Instead, the stone image became more and more transfixed, an almost oppressively silent calm emanated from it, and I was obliged to realize that something was represented here that could stay without change; that this Moses would remain sitting like this in his wrath forever.
Sigmund Freud, The Moses of Michelangelo, Standard Edition 13