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Ignudo 12
Michelangelo
DATE 1510
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 right corner of the Creation of Eve (above the Cumaean Sibyl).

In the four ignudi of the fifth bay who hold the yellow ribbons interwoven with the bronze-coloured medallions, the use of contrapposta with a variety of gestures and poses has now been replaced the symmetrical arrangement of figures. The relationship between the figures, placed opposite each other in pairs, is based on increasingly free and complex rhythmical correspondences, with rotating movements and pronounced bendings of the limbs.

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