Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Bearded Slave
Alternate Title:
Bearded Captive
Image View:
Detail, lower body from the right, in situ with the David visible beyond
Creator:
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian sculptor, 1475-1564)
Location:
repository: Galleria dell'Accademia (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
58-60 via Ricasoli
GPS:
43.77694 11.25873
Date:
ca. 1530-1534 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
sculpture
Material:
marble
Technique:
carving (processes)
Measurements:
263 cm (height)
Relation Work:
designedFor Tomb of Julius II
Description:
One of six slave or captive figures, originally personifying the Liberal Arts, planned for the tomb of Pope Julius II. The group of four slaves at the Accademia are from a significantly different version of the tomb project started in 1516. These are part of his unfinished works called the 'non-finito'; the four slaves were once incorporated by Bernardo Buontalenti into the rough masonry of a grotto in the Boboli Gardens in Florence (replicas in situ). The Bearded Slave is the most finished of the four Slaves at the Accademia. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-MB-AG-BS-A15
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Bearded Slave