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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Male Nude (recto)

🖼 Male Nude (recto), 1501-02
Pen and brown ink
337 × 162 cm
Paris, France

Musculature rendered with anatomical precision dominates this ink study, the figure's powerful torso and limbs captured through confident line work. Renaissance masters used such life drawings as foundational studies for monumental works, cementing the nude male form as central to Western artistic tradition.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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