Guiliano de Medici, Duke of Nemours [plaster cast]

Buonarroti, Michelangelo; Lelli, Oronzio
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Reproduction of Guiliano de Medici
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/98044
Date
1875-1881
Description
General view, from above; The decoration of the Medici funerary chapel was commissioned from Michelangelo in 1520 by Cardinal Giulio de'Medici, afterwards Pope Clement VII (1478-1534). The figure of Giuliano (1479-1516) is seated in a niche above his tomb on which recline allegorical figures of Night and Day. The marble original dates from ca. 1526-1534. Source: V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) [website]; http://www.vam.ac.uk/ (accessed 4/28/2009)
Type of Work
replica; sculpture (visual work)
Subject
death or burial, rulers and leaders, Medici, Giuliano de', duca di Nemours, 1479-1516, Roman military dress, baton, Nineteenth century, Renaissance
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