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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Man Abducting a Woman (recto)

🖼 Man Abducting a Woman (recto), 1524-25
Black chalk
116 × 97 cm
Haarlem, Netherlands

Violent motion dominates this sketch, where muscular forms twist in dramatic abduction, rendered with urgent charcoal strokes. Michelangelo's anatomical mastery and psychological intensity reveal Renaissance obsession with human passion, struggle, and classical mythological themes.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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