Plaster Cast of Giuliano de 'Medici (Duke of Nemours, b. 1478; d.1564) after the marble original in the Medici Chapel (the New Sacristy) in the church of S. Lorenzo, Florence.

The decorations of the Medici funerary chapel was commissioned from Michelangelo in 1520 by Cardinal Giulio de 'Medici, afterwards Pope Clement VII (1478-1534). The figure of Giuliano (1479-1516) is seated in a niche above his tomb on which recline allegorical figures of Night and Day. On the opposite wall is the companion figure of Giuliano's nephew, Lorenzo de 'Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492-1519), with Dawn and Dusk on his tomb.

Gallery location:
Cast Courts, Room 46b, The Weston Cast Court , case FS, shelf S

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Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London