Day

Here is an example of Hellenistic sculpture, the “Belvedere Torso”, which Michelangelo reworks and transforms. It is evident how the Titan is compositionally related to the “Night” according to a canon of contrapposto, developed in every attitude of the limbs. In the evocative effect of the “non-finito”, the face seems reduced to the intensity of the gaze. It is works such as these, and still more their perfect integration in a powerful and organic structural system, that justify the comparison with Dante’s poetry.