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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Sacrifice of Noah (with ignudi and medallions)

🖼 Sacrifice of Noah (with ignudi and medallions), 1509
Fresco
Vatican, Italy

Muscular nudes frame Noah's altar in dynamic poses, their sculptural forms rendered in fresco across the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Michelangelo's ignudi demonstrate his anatomical mastery and establish the Classical ideal that dominated Renaissance art for centuries.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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