Michelangelo's Dying Slave

The Dying Slave, a marble sculpture by Michelangelo Buonnaroti, now resides at the Louvre in Paris. Dying Slave was intended to be a part of Pope Julius II’s tomb. Michelangelo started on the Dying Slave in 1505 and ended in 1513, at the Pope’s death when economic factors changed plans for the tomb. Because of his great intelligence, Michelangelo is probably the most famous of all sculptors, and his two Slaves in the Louvre, including the Dying Slave and the Rebellious Slave, are the best known works in the sculpture department.

Michelangelo’s father and art mentor was Lorenzo de’Medici’s, a famous artist. He was therefore exposed heavily to the arts and thoughts of the ancient world. This resulted in Michelangelo’s art as well as his poetry bearing at first a great resemblance to the art and thought of the ancient world. As he got better his art slowly progressed into something nobody else had ever accomplished, setting new standards for artists of the Renaissance. Michelangelo’s art had two main components which were also two components of the Renaissance art style. These consist of a revival of the classical forms originally developed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, a great con

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