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Maker(s):Buonarroti, Michelangelo
Culture:Italian, Renaissance
Title:The dying slave
Date Made:ca. 1513-1516
Type:Cast
Materials:plaster
Place Made:Europe
Measurements:overall: 89 x 28 x 21 1/4 in.; 226.06 x 71.12 x 53.975 cm
Accession Number:  MH 1910.20.P.OIII
Credit Line:Gift of the Mount Holyoke College Club of Washington, D.C., in memory of Florence Syvret Morris (Class of 1895)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

Description:
semi-nude male with left arm behind his head, right arm bent, rested on his chest. Executed for second project of tomb of Pope Julius II: designed for a position in front of the pilaster to the left of the center of the front face of the tomb.

Tags:
reproductions

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