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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Sitting Male Nude (recto)

🖼 Sitting Male Nude (recto), c. 1504
Pen and brown ink, gray-brown wash, heightened in white, over drawing in stylus
420 × 285 cm
London, United Kingdom

Rendered in bold charcoal, a muscular male figure sits in contrapposto, his body twisting with anatomical precision. This study reveals Michelangelo's obsessive investigation of human form, directly informing his monumental David sculpture completed that same year.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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