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Brutus (Michelangelo)

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Artist
  
Michelangelo

Created
  
1538

Location
  
Bargello

Genre
  
Kinetic art

Brutus (Michelangelo) Michelangelo Brutus 1540 Marble height 95 cm with base Museo

Periods
  
Italian Renaissance, High Renaissance, Renaissance

Similar
  
Michelangelo artwork, Artwork at Bargello, Renaissance artwork

The Brutus is a 1538 bust of Brutus by Michelangelo. It is now in the Bargello museum in Florence. It was commissioned by the republican Donato Giannotti for cardinal Niccolò Ridolfi.

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It is said to have been commissioned to honor the deed of Lorenzino de Medici, who had earned the name of Brutus by assassinating his distant cousin, Alessandro.

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