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Michelangelo was particularly interested in kidney function because he suffered from kidney stones throughout his adult life and documented this interest in his letters and poems, according to Eknoyan. Eknoyan suggested [9] that Michelangelo concealed an image of a kidney in the Separation of Land and Water, the third panel in the Genesis series.
The Atlas Slave is a 2.77m high marble statue by Michelangelo, dated to 1525–1530. It is one of the 'Prisoners', the series of unfinished sculptures for the tomb of Pope Julius II . It is now held in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence .
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is one of the most renowned artworks of the High Renaissance. Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which The Creation of Adam is the best known, the hands of God and Adam being reproduced in countless imitations.
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The Dying Slave is a sculpture by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Created between 1513 and 1516, it was to serve with another figure, the Rebellious Slave, at the tomb of Pope Julius II. [1] It is a marble figure 2.15 metres (7' 4") in height, and is exhibited at the Louvre, Paris.
Michelangelo heavily studied the human body and dissected numerous cadavers in his artistic career, and over time became captivated by the male torso. [ 31 ] [ better source needed ] In his treatises on painting and sculpture , Leon Battista Alberti , defined the male figure as a "geometrical and harmonious sum of its parts". [ 25 ]
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
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