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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: The Holy Family with the Infant St John (verso)

🖼 The Holy Family with the Infant St John (verso), 1529-30
Red chalk
290 × 204 cm
Paris, France

Tender figures huddle in warm earth tones, their interlocking bodies rendered through delicate cross-hatching. Mary cradles Christ while John approaches—a domestic intimacy rarely seen in Renaissance religious art, revealing Michelangelo's deeply human approach to sacred subjects.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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