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An engraving of Michelangelo derived from a portrait of the artist by Jacopino del Conte after 1535.
Michelangelo’s Dying Slave and Bound Slave are currently displayed in the Louvre in Paris.12
These sculptures were originally intended for the tomb of Pope Julius II, but they were ultimately excluded from the final design because they were of the wrong scale. Michelangelo kept the statues until his later years, at which point he gifted them to a family that had assisted him during an illness.12