Beeld van een personificatie van de schemering door Michelangelo in de kapel van de Medici, Florence 1890 - 1920

This photograph captures Michelangelo's sculpture of a personification of dusk or twilight, housed in the Medici Chapel in Florence. Imagine Michelangelo, chisel in hand, coaxing form from the unyielding marble, driven by an internal vision. I think he saw dusk not as a gentle fade but as a muscular transition, a moment of potent energy, and crepuscular uncertainty. The figure sprawls across the architecture in languid tension; his limbs possess a weighty presence, a weariness perhaps, reflecting the close of day. Notice how Michelangelo leaves traces of his making, a deliberate roughness that contrasts the smoothness of the skin? It’s as if the stone remembers its origins, echoing a time-worn aesthetic. This interplay between finish and rawness, light and shadow, makes for a really dynamic viewing experience. The piece has a powerful sense of becoming and offers an enduring expression of the human form at rest.