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After Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

'Night', model after Michelangelo

Plaster

Museum number: A93

On display: Lobby to the Breakfast Room
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Curatorial note

This is a reduced scale model of the full-size marble figure of "Night" sculpted by Michelangelo for the tomb of Giuliano de Medici in the Medici Chapel at the Basilica of S. Lorenzo, Florence (executed between 1520 and 1534). It forms a pair with A45, a similar model of 'Day'.

Provenance help-art-provenance

Unknown. Present in Soane's collection by 1822.

Associated items

A45, pair


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