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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Male Nude, Seen from the Rear (verso)

🖼 Male Nude, Seen from the Rear (verso), 1534-36
Black chalk on brown paper
242 × 182 cm
Haarlem, Netherlands

Musculature rendered in precise charcoal defines this male back, muscles tensed and anatomically exacting. The verso study reveals Michelangelo's obsessive preparation for monumental works, demonstrating how Renaissance masters understood human form through rigorous life drawing.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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