ce is Giuliano de' Medici. The niche in which Giuliano sits is very small, which I believe make the figure look much larger to the viewer. The two figures, which lie below the niche of Giuliano, are entitled Night and Day. These figures are a bit over life sized due to their extremely defined, muscular builds. "They appear", according to Olsen's Italian Renaissance Sculpture, "to be sliding off the curved, split lids, giving the illusion that the sarcophagus will open to release the soul of the deceased."(Pg.129). I will spea
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