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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Slave (awakening)

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

Emerging from rough stone, a muscular figure strains against marble constraints in dynamic contrapposto. Michelangelo's unfinished slave embodies the Neoplatonic ideal of liberating the soul from matter's prison, revolutionizing sculpture's expressive potential.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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