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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Slave (dying)

🖼 Slave (dying), c. 1513
Marble, height 229 cm
Paris, France

A muscular male figure emerges from rough marble, body twisting in contrapposto as if struggling against the stone itself. The unfinished work epitomizes Michelangelo's revolutionary belief that sculpture liberates forms imprisoned within the block.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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