Bronze sculpture “Bearded Slave”

 

Michelangelo
Bronze posthumous first edition original sculpture of Michelangelo’s “Bearded Slave” preserved in the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence

Lost wax casting in statuary bronze Work in limited edition from an original model made by the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry

Height: 260 cm.

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The bronze sculpture “Bearded Slave” is a posthumous first edition of the original model of the marble sculpture by Michelangelo preserved in the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence.

The statue was sculpted by Michelangelo between about 1525 and 1530 and is part of the so-called “Prisoners” for the tomb of Julius II.

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Dimensions 90 × 70 × 260 cm
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