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Ignudo 3
Michelangelo
DATE 1509
AUTHOR Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475, Caprese - 1564, Roma)
MATERIAL Fresco -Ceiling painting
SIZE Unknown
LOCATION (Italy - Rome) - Vatican City - Sistine Chapel
NOTES The picture shows the nude at the lower left corner of the Drunkenness of Noah (above the prophet Joel).

The figures of ignudi in this group bear garlands of oak leaves and acorns - allusions to the Della Rovere (= oak) family - and ribbons passing through the frames of the large gilded medallions.

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