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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Amminadab

🖼 Amminadab, 1511-12
Fresco
215 × 430 cm
Vatican, Italy

Powerful musculature rendered in warm ochre defines this seated patriarch, his monumental form twisted in dynamic contrapposto. Amminadab appears in Christ's genealogy on the Sistine ceiling, exemplifying Michelangelo's heroic male nudes that revolutionized Renaissance figure painting.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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