The Day (one of a pair)

After an original by Michelangelo Buonarroti Italian

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The origin of these (see also 1971.206.36), as of the numerous other reduced versions of Michelangelo's brooding personifications on the Medici tombs, is a vexed issue. The style of this pair differs markedly from Michelangelo's own; the careful surfaces and precise, formalized delineation of the musculature and hair suggest a late mannerist Florentine source, but an eighteenth-century origin in the north has also been proposed.

The Day (one of a pair), After an original by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome), Terracotta, Italian

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The Day (one of a pair), After an original by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome), Terracotta, Italian
The Day (one of a pair), After an original by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome), Terracotta, Italian
The Day (one of a pair), After an original by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome), Terracotta, Italian
The Day (one of a pair), After an original by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome), Terracotta, Italian
The Day (one of a pair), After an original by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome), Terracotta, Italian

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