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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Slave (Atlas)

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

Muscular torso emerges from unfinished marble, straining against its stone prison in dynamic contrapposto. Michelangelo's intentional incompleteness revolutionized sculpture, transforming the figure's struggle into metaphor for the soul trapped within matter itself.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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