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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Expulsion from Garden of Eden

🖼 Expulsion from Garden of Eden, 1509-10
Fresco
Vatican, Italy

Muscular figures twist in anguish as an angel drives Adam and Eve from Paradise, rendered in bold foreshortening across the Sistine Chapel vault. Michelangelo's anatomically precise bodies capture raw human despair, establishing the expulsion narrative as central to Renaissance spiritual art.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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