The Day (one of a pair)
ca. 1600
Medium
Terracotta
Dimensions
Overall: 15 1/2 × 28 × 10 in. (39.4 × 71.1 × 25.4 cm); Base: 9 × 20 1/2 × 11 in. (22.9 × 52.1 × 27.9 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Culture
Italian
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1971
Accession Number
1971.206.35
Tags
About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti · 1475–1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) stands as the quintessential figure of the Italian High Renaissance, a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose mastery across disciplines embodied the era's humanist ideals. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese within the Republic of Florence to a modest family—his father, Lodovico di Buonarroti Simoni, served as a minor magistrate—Michelang...