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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Slave (Atlas)

🖼 Slave (Atlas), 1519-36
Marble, height 208 cm
Florence, Italy

Straining muscles emerge from rough marble, a bearded figure trapped mid-struggle against stone. Michelangelo's unfinished slave embodies Renaissance ideals of human potential constrained by matter, symbolizing the artist's own creative process of liberation through sculpture.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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