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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Studies of Heads, an Ear, and a Leg (verso)

🖼 Studies of Heads, an Ear, and a Leg (verso), 1524-25
Red and black chalk
260 × 410 cm
Frankfurt, Germany

Rapid charcoal strokes fragment the page into anatomical studies—a profile, an ear, a muscular leg—each rendered with surgical precision. These sketches reveal Michelangelo's obsessive investigation of human form, essential to his monumental sculptural and architectural vision.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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