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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Bacchus

🖼 Bacchus, 1497
Marble, height 203 cm
Florence, Italy

Youthful intoxication dominates this marble figure—languid posture, swollen belly, and dreamy gaze rendered with anatomical precision. Michelangelo's earliest masterwork redefines classical sculpture by merging idealized beauty with unflinching human vulnerability and excess.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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