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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Separation of Light from Darkness

🖼 Separation of Light from Darkness, 1511
Fresco
180 × 260 cm
Vatican, Italy

Swirling divine energy captures God's commanding gesture as light bursts from darkness in muscular, foreshortened form. This Sistine Chapel fresco revolutionized Renaissance art through its radical anatomy and theological intensity, establishing Michelangelo's mastery of the human figure in cosmic drama.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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