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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Sitting Nude Figures

🖼 Sitting Nude Figures, 1508-09
Black chalk, partly reworked in pen and brown ink
414 × 270 cm
Florence, Italy

Muscular bodies twist in contrapposto across the page, rendered with confident charcoal strokes that capture anatomical precision and dynamic movement. These life studies reveal Michelangelo's obsessive exploration of human form, foundational to his sculptural and architectural masterworks.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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