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Michelangelo’s Angry Little Saint
Michelangelo got his first commission in Bologna: two small statues of saints. He had been studying the human body and found that he liked it above all other subjects. He would have liked to carve a beautiful nude but with … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Beauty, Bologna, Dominican friars, folds in sculpture, human body, Italy, Michelangelo, Nicodemus, Pietà, Renaissance, saint, sculpture, St. Petronius, St. Proculus
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