A pair of big porcelain candelabra

seven lights, painted in white and blue cobalt shades, "Prigioni" shaped stem, carved in a round shape and resting on rocky shaped patterns on a mixed line base, flames on arms decorated with floral, scroll shaped and masks I Prigioni are a group of six statues made by Michelangelo for the mausoleum of Pope Julius II. The two later statues are preserved at the Louvre Museum, while the other four left unfinished and nicknamed "Florentine prisons" are within the Accademia Gallery in Florence. The incompleteness of the works that paradoxically has consecrated their fame: the sense of movement that the Prisons evolve in their twists, as if trying to get out of the marble without success, makes them immortal and difficult to forget. The Fiorentini Prisons, of which the Young Slave is part, the Bearded Slave, the Atlante and the Slave that are ridiculed, date back to 1525-1530, while Michelangelo was engaged in San Lorenzo (Florence). They were probably left incomplete for their cancellation from the Mausoleum project in 1542. They were donated by Leonardo Buonarroti, nephew of Michelangelo, to Cosimo I, who placed them in the Grotto of Buontalenti. In the early 1900's they moved to the Academy Gallery, placed after the vestibule of the entrance to Via Ricasoli in the first gallery, later called in their honor of the Prison Gallery., h. 85 cm.