Dying Slave
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Italic title Template:Infobox artwork The Dying Slave (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang".) is a sculpture by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo, created between 1513 and 1516. It was intended to accompany another figure, the Rebellious Slave, as part of the design for the tomb of Pope Julius II.[1] The marble figure is Script error: No such module "convert"., and is housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
In 1976, the art historian Richard Fly wrote that the sculpture "suggests that moment when life capitulates before the relentless force of dead matter".[2] In the 2012 volume The Slave in European Art, Charles Robertson discusses the Dying Slave in the context of actual slavery in Italy during the Renaissance.[3]
Fourteen reproductions of the Dying Slave adorn the top storey of the police station in Paris's 12th arrondissement.[4] The building, although Art Deco in style, was designed in 1991 by architects Template:Ill and Miriam Teitelbaum.[5][6]
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- Dying Slave at the Louvre Museum collection database
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