MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
(b. 1475, Caprese, d. 1564, Roma)

Amminadab (detail)

1511-12
Fresco
Cappella Sistina, Vatican

The man on the left is depicted frontally, sitting bolt upright with his feet together, his forearms resting on his legs, and his hands tightly intertwined, a gesture that seems to betray great interior tension, as does the expression on his face, with its strongly pronounced lineaments under wiry hair held down with a white scarf. He is wearing a pale green cloak with reddish-orange shadows and tight gray-blue hose. From his ears hang two metal earrings of different shapes.




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