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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Nahshon

🖼 Nahshon, 1511-12
Fresco
215 × 430 cm
Vatican, Italy

Musculature ripples across this ignudi figure, rendered in warm terracotta tones against the vault's cool background. Nahshon exemplifies Michelangelo's synthesis of classical anatomy with biblical narrative, establishing the Renaissance ideal of heroic human form within sacred space.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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