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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: The third bay of the ceiling

🖼 The third bay of the ceiling, 1508-12
Fresco
Vatican, Italy

Muscular figures twist dynamically across vaulted plaster, rendered in bold foreshortening and anatomical precision. Michelangelo's revolutionary ceiling section established Renaissance mastery of the human form and transformed fresco painting into monumental art.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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