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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Slave (bearded)

🖼 Slave (bearded), 1519-36
Marble, height 248 cm
Florence, Italy

Carved marble captures a bearded man straining against invisible bonds, muscles tensed in struggle. Michelangelo's unfinished slave exemplifies his belief that sculpture liberates figures trapped within stone, reflecting Renaissance ideals of human potential and divine creation.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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