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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: The Conversion of Saul

🖼 The Conversion of Saul, 1542-45
Fresco
625 × 661 cm
Rome, Italy

Violent motion erupts across the composition as Saul tumbles from his horse, surrounded by soldiers and divine light breaking through darkness. Michelangelo's dramatic rendering transforms a biblical conversion into raw human vulnerability, cementing the artist's late-career exploration of spiritual transformation and physical dynamism.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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