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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Slave (Atlas)

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

Muscular tension strains against marble as an unfinished figure emerges from stone, caught between liberation and constraint. Michelangelo's deliberate incompleteness revolutionized sculpture, transforming the block itself into a metaphor for human struggle and artistic creation.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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