Night by Michelangelo

E403743

allegorical sculpture marble sculpture

"Night" by Michelangelo is a renowned allegorical marble sculpture of a reclining female figure, created for the Medici Chapel in Florence as part of a series representing different times of day.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Night (Michelangelo)	2
Night by Michelangelo canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3991928 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Night by Michelangelo
Context triple: [Medici Chapel, hasSculpture, Night by Michelangelo]

A. Dante’s View
Dante’s View is a high-elevation overlook on the eastern edge of Death Valley National Park that offers sweeping panoramic views of the valley floor and surrounding mountains.
B. Dante’s Dream
Dante’s Dream is a celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicting a visionary scene from Dante Alighieri’s Vita Nuova, rich in symbolic color and medieval romanticism.
C. The Gates of Hell
The Gates of Hell is Auguste Rodin’s monumental sculptural portal inspired by Dante’s Inferno, featuring a dense assemblage of figures including the famous Thinker.
D. De pictura
De pictura is a seminal 15th-century treatise that systematically codifies the principles of linear perspective and painting in Renaissance art.
E. Gates of Hell
The "Gates of Hell" is a fiery, continuously burning natural gas crater in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert, famous for its dramatic glow and otherworldly appearance.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Night by Michelangelo
Target entity description: "Night" by Michelangelo is a renowned allegorical marble sculpture of a reclining female figure, created for the Medici Chapel in Florence as part of a series representing different times of day.

A. Dante’s View
Dante’s View is a high-elevation overlook on the eastern edge of Death Valley National Park that offers sweeping panoramic views of the valley floor and surrounding mountains.
B. Dante’s Dream
Dante’s Dream is a celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicting a visionary scene from Dante Alighieri’s Vita Nuova, rich in symbolic color and medieval romanticism.
C. The Gates of Hell
The Gates of Hell is Auguste Rodin’s monumental sculptural portal inspired by Dante’s Inferno, featuring a dense assemblage of figures including the famous Thinker.
D. De pictura
De pictura is a seminal 15th-century treatise that systematically codifies the principles of linear perspective and painting in Renaissance art.
E. Gates of Hell
The "Gates of Hell" is a fiery, continuously burning natural gas crater in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert, famous for its dramatic glow and otherworldly appearance.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	allegorical sculpture ⓘ marble sculpture ⓘ
artHistoricalPeriod	16th century ⓘ
artworkStyle	monumental nude ⓘ
collection	Medici Chapels, Florence ⓘ linked to: Medici Chapel
commissionedBy	Medici family ⓘ
commissionedFor	New Sacristy of San Lorenzo ⓘ linked to: Medici Chapel
country	Italy ⓘ
creator	Michelangelo ⓘ
depicts	reclining female figure ⓘ
genre	allegory ⓘ
hasPart	crescent moon on the diadem ⓘ mask under the figure’s hand ⓘ owl (symbol of night) ⓘ
hasQuality	expressive anatomical detail ⓘ unfinished surface areas ⓘ
iconographicTheme	time and mortality ⓘ
inception	1520s ⓘ
influencedBy	classical sculpture ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Italian ⓘ
locatedIn	Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence ⓘ linked to: Basilica of San Lorenzo
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Florence ⓘ
location	Medici Chapel ⓘ
materialUsed	marble ⓘ
movement	High Renaissance ⓘ Mannerism ⓘ
notableWorkOf	Michelangelo ⓘ
onTombOf	Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours ⓘ linked to: Giuliano de' Medici
oppositeOf	Day (Michelangelo sculpture) ⓘ linked to: Day by Michelangelo
originalTitle	Notte ⓘ
partOf	New Sacristy sculptural program ⓘ tomb of Giuliano de' Medici ⓘ linked to: Tomb of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino
partOfSeries	Dawn and Dusk ⓘ Night and Day ⓘ Times of Day sculptures ⓘ
position	reclining ⓘ
represents	night ⓘ linked to: Night time of day ⓘ
significantPlace	Florence, Italy ⓘ linked to: Florence
subjectHasRole	personification of night ⓘ
title	Night ⓘ
usesSymbolism	mask as symbol of dreams or illusion ⓘ owl as symbol of night ⓘ sleep as metaphor for death ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Medici Chapel → hasSculpture → Night by Michelangelo ⓘ

Dusk (Michelangelo) → relatedWork → Night (Michelangelo) ⓘ

subject linked to: Dusk by Michelangelo

linked to: Night by Michelangelo

Day (Michelangelo) → pairWith → Night (Michelangelo) ⓘ

subject linked to: Day by Michelangelo