Dawn (Michelangelo)

Dawn is a sculpture by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo, executed for the Medici Chapel in the area of the tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence, Italy.

Detail photograph by Paolo Monti, 1975

It is part of a second pair (the second being Dusk), which followed Day and Night in his work on the Chapel.

Length: 6 feet 8 inches.

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