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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Battle of Cascina (central section)

🖼 Battle of Cascina (central section), 1505
Oil on panel
77 × 130 cm
Norfolk, Austria

Muscular bodies twisted in urgent motion fill the composition, rendered in dynamic charcoal with anatomical precision. Michelangelo's unfinished cartoon revolutionized figure drawing, influencing generations of Renaissance artists through its raw power and innovative study of human form in action.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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