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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: David/Apollo

🖼 David/Apollo, 1530
Marble, height 146 cm
Florence, Italy

Marble captures a nude youth in contrapposto stance, one hand relaxed, the other tensed—classical perfection rendered through Renaissance mastery. Michelangelo's ambiguous figure blurs Apollo and David, embodying humanist ideals while asserting sculpture's power to rival painting and nature itself.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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