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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Standing Male Nude, Seen from the Rear (recto)

🖼 Standing Male Nude, Seen from the Rear (recto), c. 1503
Pen and brown ink
387 × 195 cm
Vienna, Austria

Musculature rendered in precise charcoal defines a male figure viewed from behind, each anatomical plane carefully studied. Michelangelo's life-drawing demonstrates the Renaissance obsession with human form as classical ideal, establishing foundations for High Renaissance figural art.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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