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  2. Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment - Wikipedia

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    It is a figure study made in preparation for his painting The Entombment, and is Michelangelo's only surviving study that was probably drawn from a nude female model. [1] It also may be the earliest extant European drawing of a nude female model. [1] The figure in the drawing relates to a woman seated in the lower left foreground of the painting.

  3. Figure study - Wikipedia

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    A figure study is a drawing or painting of the human body made in preparation for a more composed or finished work; [1] or to learn drawing and painting techniques in general and the human figure in particular. By preference, figure studies are done from a live model, but may also include the use of other references [2] and the imagination of ...

  4. The Entombment (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    The composition is a novel one, with the body of Jesus typically held horizontally in paintings of the Entombment, although earlier examples with Jesus held vertically that may have influenced Michelangelo include a 1438-1440 predella to the San Marco Altarpiece by Fra Angelico, and Domenico Ghirlandaio. The upright posture of Jesus may allude ...

  5. Michelangelo’s iconic Sistine Chapel painting may depict ...

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    Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers.. The ...

  6. Gallery of the Sistine Chapel ceiling - Wikipedia

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    The iconic image of the Hand of God giving life to Adam 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 ...

  7. Michelangelo – The Last Decades review: What a way for an ...

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    Yet the only image visibly testifying to Michelangelo’s interest in this new spirituality is a hyper-sensitive and startlingly realistic drawing of Christ on the cross (1538-41).

  8. Michelangelo - Wikipedia

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    Michelangelo began painting with the later episodes in the narrative, the pictures including locational details and groups of figures, the Drunkenness of Noah being the first of this group. [109] In the later compositions, painted after the initial scaffolding had been removed, Michelangelo made the figures larger. [ 109 ]

  9. Rare Michelangelo drawing sold for 24 million dollars

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    STORY: The work had been designated a French national treasure, which barred it from being exported from the country for 30 months. But the French government recently removed the designation ...