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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: The sixth bay of the ceiling

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

Muscular figures twist and strain across vaulted plaster, rendered in bold foreshortening and anatomical precision. This Sistine Chapel section revolutionized Renaissance art by demonstrating the human form's expressive power and establishing Michelangelo as history's greatest fresco painter.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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