# Giuliano de' Medici \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Marble ## Commentary Unlike the thoughtful Lorenzo, Giuliano de' Medici, who died in 1516, stretches his neck out to the group around the Mother of God in a manner suggestive of his eagerness for action. The command staff in his hands indicates that he was nominated the 'generalissimo' of the church by his brother, Pope Leo X, in 1516, the year he became Pope. This ruler, who acquired his position as a duke thanks to his marriage to Philiberta of Savoy, embodies the Active Life. ## Related artworks - [A Man Lifting a Boar onto his Shoulder \(verso\)]() - [Abraham - Isaac - Jacob - Judah]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud]() - [Aeneas with a Boy \(recto\)]() - [Allegorical figure]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()