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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Slave (young)

🖼 Slave (young), 1519-36
Marble, height 235 cm
Florence, Italy

Marble captures a youthful figure emerging from stone, muscles tensed in struggle, rendered with anatomical precision. Michelangelo's unfinished slave embodies Renaissance ideals of human potential while questioning artistic process—the visible struggle between form and raw material itself.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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