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Message:: [QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 10084044, member: 8267"]The skiers copy the poses of the two mourning figures on Michelangelo's tomb ofGiuliano de Medici - [ATTACH=full]506136[/ATTACH] "The reclining figures on the sarcophagus of the Duke Giuliano represent Night and Day, and are supposed to be symbolic of death and resurrection. Night is a woman lying with head sunk upon the breast in a deep sleep. She is crowned with a crescent moon and star, and an owl is placed at her feet. The mask beneath her pillow symbolizes the body from which the spirit has departed. Though the figure is not beautiful in the Greek sense, it is grand and queenly. Opposite is Day, an unfinished captive, his head half freed from the stone, the arms rigid, the body contorted."<a href="https://grandearte.net/michelangelo/tomb-giuliano-de-medici#:~:text=The%20reclining%20figures%20on%20the,is%20placed%20at%20her%20feet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://grandearte.net/michelangelo/tomb-giuliano-de-medici#:~:text=The%20reclining%20figures%20on%20the,is%20placed%20at%20her%20feet" rel="nofollow">https://grandearte.net/michelangelo/tomb-giuliano-de-medici#:~:text=The reclining figures on the,is placed at her feet</a>.[/QUOTE]