UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian
(active c. 1480 in Florence)

Giuliano de' Medici

c. 1480
Marble, height 63 cm
Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

Giuliano de' Medici, son of Piero and brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, died at only twenty-five years of age in the Pazzi conspiracy on April 26, 1478. The sculptor, who portrayed Giuliano after his death, probably had available a death cast, as was common in this period.