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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Man Abducting a Woman (verso)

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

Violent motion captures a man seizing a woman in swirling, energetic lines—Michelangelo's dynamic figure study rendered in rapid pen strokes. The sketch reveals Renaissance masters' obsession with dramatic human anatomy and movement, foundational to High Renaissance compositions.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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