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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Ignudo

🖼 Ignudo, 1509-10
Fresco
Vatican, Italy

Muscular male nudes frame the Sistine Chapel ceiling in bold foreshortening and classical contrapposto. Michelangelo's ignudi demonstrate unprecedented anatomical mastery and establish the male form as Renaissance art's supreme subject, influencing centuries of figure painting.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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