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]]>The Prisoners (or sometimes “Slaves”) are made of a single block of marble each and are considered to be unfinished. Each of the four is a male figure that demonstrates a sculpting practice of Michelangelo’s and indicates the artist’s belief that the art is already in the material ready for an artist to release it.
The Atlas Slave is almost 9 feet tall. The male nude partly carved in the marble seems to carry an immense weight on his shoulders, like the ancient Titan Atlas.
This Prisoner seems to be caught mid-motion, which gives its unfinished state all the more energy. Its name comes from the character’s curly beard, one of the two soft textures this sculpture includes, together with the fabric wrapped around its legs.
With one arm behind his back, hinting at a chain that was never carved out of the marble, the figure’s other arm seems to be protecting its face from an unknown attack, adding emotion to the already grim expression of his face.
Of the four, this figure is the roughest, the post seems to imply that the nude was cocooned in marble and is frozen during the process of reviving out of it.
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]]>The post Michelangelo’s The Prisoners Sculptures in Florence, Italy appeared first on Traveler Dreams.
]]>The Prisoners (or sometimes “Slaves”) are made of a single block of marble each and are considered to be unfinished. Each of the four is a male figure that demonstrates a sculpting practice of Michelangelo’s and indicates the artist’s belief that the art is already in the material ready for an artist to release it.
The Atlas Slave is almost 9 feet tall. The male nude partly carved in the marble seems to carry an immense weight on his shoulders, like the ancient Titan Atlas.
This Prisoner seems to be caught mid-motion, which gives its unfinished state all the more energy. Its name comes from the character’s curly beard, one of the two soft textures this sculpture includes, together with the fabric wrapped around its legs.
With one arm behind his back, hinting at a chain that was never carved out of the marble, the figure’s other arm seems to be protecting its face from an unknown attack, adding emotion to the already grim expression of his face.
Of the four, this figure is the roughest, the post seems to imply that the nude was cocooned in marble and is frozen during the process of reviving out of it.
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