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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Slave (awakening)

🖼 Slave (awakening), 1519-36
Marble, height 267 cm
Florence, Italy

Emerging from rough marble, a muscular figure writhes in struggle, his limbs half-freed from stone. Michelangelo's unfinished slave captures the tension between captivity and liberation, becoming a Renaissance metaphor for the soul's journey toward divine transcendence.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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