Title: Duke Giuliano with Day and Night
Artist: Michelangelo
Location: Medici Chapel, San Lorenzo, Florence
Date: 1519 - 34
- contracted bodies
- Night and Day are presented with symbols on them
- Night with owl and mask
- Michelangelo puts his own face on the mask and makes it identifiable, but the Medici are idealised - reflects Michelangelo's disgust at Medici taking power
- masks are supposed to disguise faces , but his reveals his face - mannerist architecture - mannerism with style
- Guiliano is alert
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