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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Studies for a Flying Angel (recto)

🖼 Studies for a Flying Angel (recto), 1534-36
Black chalk
407 × 272 cm
London, United Kingdom

Rapid pen strokes capture a muscular figure suspended in flight, limbs twisted dynamically across the page. Michelangelo's anatomical studies reveal his obsessive exploration of human form in motion, directly informing his monumental fresco compositions and establishing the Renaissance ideal of the airborne body.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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