Description
The Rebel Slave is a marble sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, made in about 1513 and kept in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Together with the Dying Slave, they were sculpted to adorn the base of the mausoleum of Pope Julius II. From a stylistic point of view, It refers to ancient statuary such as the Laocoon Group, discovered in 1506 in the presence of Michelangelo himself.The figure is portrayed while trying to free himself from the bonds that imprison his hands behind his back, twisting and rotating his torso and head.
