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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: The Damned Soul

🖼 The Damned Soul, c. 1525
Ink on paper
357 × 251 cm
Florence, Italy

Twisted flesh contorts in anguish, rendered through sculptural muscularity and dynamic diagonal composition. Michelangelo's study captures human suffering with anatomical precision, establishing the damned as psychologically tormented rather than merely physically punished, profoundly influencing Renaissance depictions of damnation.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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