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

🖼 Male Nude, Seen from the Rear (verso), c. 1504
Black chalk, heightened with white
270 × 196 cm
Vienna, Austria

Musculature ripples across a broad back rendered in confident charcoal strokes, the figure twisted in contrapposto. This anatomical study reveals Michelangelo's obsessive exploration of the human form, directly informing his monumental David sculpture completed that same year.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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