Drawing the mercurial mind: book poses Michelangelo’s draughtsmanship as the key to his life and works

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Michelangelo

Michelangelo’s focus on the expressive power of the human body is evident in this sequence of red chalk drawings on a sheet that survived the destruction of many Sistine Chapel ceiling studies: Michelangelo, Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (around 1510-11) 

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (24.197.2 recto)

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Catherine Whistler

Drawing the mercurial mind: book poses Michelangelo’s draughtsmanship as the key to his life and works