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Described by mistake as a copy of the \"Night\" by Robinson and hence sometimes identified with the missing figure from a set of four reduced copies from the Allegories on the Medici monuments stated by Vasari to have been made by Tribolo, of which the \"Dawn\", \"Day\", and \"Evening\" are in the Bargello, the Museo Nazionale in Florence. This mistake is repeated by Fabriczy, but is corrected by Thode, Maclagan and Maclagan and Longhurst.","historicalContext":"Copies of the allegories from the Medici monuments are not uncommon.","briefDescription":"Statuette 'Dawn', terracotta, copy after Michelangelo, Italy, 16th century","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1854. <u>In</u>: <u>Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol I</u>. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 18."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Maclagan, Eric and Longhurst, Margaret H. <u>Catalogue of Italian Sculpture. Text</u>. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1932, p. 131."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Pope-Hennessy, John. <u>Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Volume II: Text. Sixteenth to Twentieth Century</u>. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964, p. 425."},{"reference":{"text":"<i>The Genius of the sculptor in Michelangelo's work</i>, Montreal : Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1992","id":"AUTH357904"},"details":"no. 57, pp. 246-247","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Satzinger, Georg and Schütze, Sebastian, <u>Der Göttliche. 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