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On this day, 17 March 1516

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Death of the Italian nobleman Giuliano de’ Medici

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Giuliano’s tomb in the Medici Chapel in the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence, is ornamented with a group of sculptures by Michelangelo, including Night and Day. Beside the female figure of Night is a grotesque mask, presumably symbolising dreams, and her feet rest on a bed of poppy-heads.

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