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MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: Woman with a Distaff and Three Children (recto)

🖼 Woman with a Distaff and Three Children (recto), 1515-20
Red chalk and traces of black chalk
212 × 283 cm
Oxford, United Kingdom

Soft charcoal renders a mother seated with spindle and thread, three children clustered around her in domestic intimacy. This rare domestic scene reveals Michelangelo's humanistic side beyond monumental sculpture, capturing Renaissance ideals of maternal virtue and family bonds.

Michelangelo
Michelangelo
Frank Zöllner
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