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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: St Jerome

🖼 St Jerome, 1493-97
Pen and gray-brown and brown ink
285 × 209 cm
Paris, France

Muscular form emerges from shadow, rendered in precise anatomical detail as the saint kneels in penitent devotion. Michelangelo's unfinished panel revolutionized Renaissance figure study, demonstrating his mastery of human anatomy and emotional intensity through minimal composition.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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