Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Twilight [copy after Michelangelo]
Image View:
Overall view from front
Creator:
after Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian sculptor, 1475-1564); Niccolò Tribolo (Italian sculptor, 1500-1550)
Location:
repository: Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
Location Note:
Via del Proconsolo 4
GPS:
43.770423 11.257947
Date:
ca. 1533-1546 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
replica
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
terracotta
Technique:
fabrication attributes: ceramics; modeling (forming)
Subjects:
allegory; death or burial; funerary art; Medici, Lorenzo de', 1492-1519
Description:
Clement VII sent Tribolo back to Florence in 1533 to help Michelangelo complete the Medici tombs in San Lorenzo, though this work was interrupted in 1534 because of the Pope’s death. He was later responsible for the installation of Michelangelo’s sculpture in the Medici Chapel in 1546 (as well as the design and installation of the elaborate pavement in the Biblioteca Laurenziana at San Lorenzo). Vasari reports that Tribolo copied all four figures from the bases of the Medici tombs in clay. It is not a direct copy; the head on this version of Twilight (or Dusk) is much more finished than Michelangelo's version (part of the Tomb of Lorenzo II de' Medici). (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-PERICOLI-MB-IC-A 01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Twilight [copy after Michelangelo]