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Young Slave
The Young Slave (Italian: Schiavo giovane) is a marble sculpture of Michelangelo, datable to around 1525-1530 which is conserved in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence. It is part of the "unfinished" series of Prigioni intended for the Tomb of Julius II.
History It seems that from the first version of the tomb of Julius II (1505) a series of "Prigioni" was planned for the lowest level of the mausoleum - a series of more-than-life-size statues of chained figures in various poses, leaning on the pilasters which framed a set of niches, each of which would contain a "winged Victory". With one on each side of each niche, it must have been initially intended for there to be sixteen or twenty Prigioni. In the course of the reductions of the project which followed, this was reduced to twelve (second project, 1513), eight (third project, 1516) and finally perhaps a mere four (fourth or fifth version, 1526 or 1532), before they were completely eliminated from the project in 1542. According to de Tolnay (1951, 1954) the Young Slave was intended for the space left of the central niche in the project of 1516.
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From a letter dated 6 October 1627 of the Provveditore Leonardo Guidotti we know the estimated cost by Tacca for the execution of the two fountains: “as for the two fountains, the Tacca says that in each of them there will be an expense of 200 scudi in making the stone place where to put it; for the balustrade and for all the marbles 400 scudi. To make the two basins, the top monsters and other ornaments 700 ducati of bronze for each one; scudi 126 for the costs of the work; scudi 400 each that means scudi 800 for both. Having received the favorable opinion of the Grand Duke, in 1627 Tacca, with the help of his pupils Bartolomeo Salvini and Francesco Maria Bandini, began the execution of the models for the two fountains to be placed on the sides of the monument of the 4 Black Prisoners in the Livorno dockyard, and which were to be used to supply water to the ships that arrived there.
But at this point a strange thing happened, described by Filippo Baldinucci in his “Notizie de’ Professori di Disegno da Cimabue in qua” of 1681: [Ferdinand II declared that] … every work that [the Tacca] was going to conduct should be paid to him … which was then always practiced, particularly in the two met