River God (Dio fluviale) - MICHELANGELO

"Florence - An imposing life-size human torso, with a muscular, powerful anatomy, emerges from its fragile material in all its divine beauty illuminated by a renewed whiteness.
After three years of restoration carried out with the sole objective of "restoring the conservative stability of the work that, fragile in itself, had undergone numerous interventions since the 16th century", the statue of the river god created by Michelangelo between 1526 and 1527, was returned in all its original splendour.
Owned by the Accademia delle Arti e del Disegno - to which it had been donated in 1583 by the sculptor and architect Bartolomeo Ammannati - the work is unique in Michelangelo's corpus."
"River God", sculpture exhibited at Palazzo Strozzi for the exhibition : Il Cinquecento a Firenze
"The River God is a sculptural model (length 180 cm) by Michelangelo Buonarroti, datable to around 1526-1527 and kept at Casa Buonarroti in Florence. It is the only known life-size model by Michelangelo and was to represent one of the untamed river deities that had to decorate the space at the feet of the Medici sarcophagi in the San Lorenzo New Sacristy."