sentences:  It is a marble figure 2.15 metres (7' 4") in height, and is held at the Louvre, Paris.In 1976 the art historian Richard Fly wrote that it "suggests that moment when life capitulates before the relentless force of dead matter".However, in a recent scholarly volume entitled "The Slave in European Art", Charles Robertson discusses the "Dying Slave" in the context of real slavery in Italy during the time of the Renaissance.