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It was moving day for Moses. The fabled bed of reeds gave way to a plaster bed lined with plastic foam as the plaster cast of the 1515 Michelangelo statue traveled from a back workroom to a second-floor gallery of the Queens Museum.
A hundred-year-old bronze cast of Zeus, the king of Greek gods, and an equally old plaster cast of the "Pieta" were among nine others that made the trip Monday to take their places for the 22-piece exhibit, "The Heroic Spirit: Classical Sculpture from Ancient Greece to Michelangelo," opening on April 27.
As an uncovered "Pieta," depicting Mary holding the body of the crucified Jesus, was wheeled out...