Henry Moore returns to Palazzo Vecchio

Henry Moore’s “Warrior with Shield” is now on permanent display at the Terrace of Saturn of Palazzo Vecchio, where the English artist originally desired the work to be displayed.
The sculpture depicts a mutilated young fighter who, in his motionless and precarious pride, encourages us to resist in the face of battles of existence and history, turning our gaze towards distant horizons. One recognizes in this sculpture the main source of inspiration for the artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti, but the recourse not only to the unfinished but also to the concept of the fragment is no less evident, as Moore’s Warrior with Shield is shown as a warrior without time or geographical belonging.