Victory

work by Michelangelo

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  • Michelangelo
    In Michelangelo: Other projects and writing

    …powerful political figure, and the Victory, a figure trampling on a defeated enemy, an old man. It was probably meant for the never-forgotten tomb of Pope Julius, because the motif had been present in the plans for that tomb. Victor and loser both have intensely complicated poses; the loser seems…

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