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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Studies of a Male Torso and Left Leg (verso)

🖼 Studies of a Male Torso and Left Leg (verso), 1519-21
Black chalk, traced with a stylus
404 × 260 cm
Haarlem, Netherlands

Anatomical precision defines these muscular studies, rendered in chalk with confident, searching lines. Michelangelo's obsessive exploration of human form—essential to his monumental sculptures and frescoes—reveals the Renaissance master's systematic mastery of classical proportion and movement.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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