Half-Length Figure

Half-Length Figure by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Medium

Charcoal on cream laid paper

Dimensions

46.1 × 35.2 cm (18 3/16 × 13 7/8 in.)

Classification

charcoal

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

95897

About the Artist

Michelangelo Buonarroti · 14751564

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) stands as the quintessential figure of the Italian High Renaissance, a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose mastery across disciplines embodied the era's humanist ideals. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese within the Republic of Florence to a modest family—his father, Lodovico di Buonarroti Simoni, served as a minor magistrate—Michelang...

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