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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Achim – Eliud

🖼 Achim – Eliud, 1511-12
Fresco
215 × 430 cm
Vatican, Italy

Rendered in fresco, two bearded figures occupy a monumental architectural frame with classical restraint and psychological depth. Part of the Sistine Chapel's genealogy of Christ, these ancestors exemplify Michelangelo's mastery of human form and spiritual narrative within the chapel's revolutionary ceiling program.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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