Michelangelo Buonarroti | Crouching Boy, 1530-1534

Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti🎨 (Italian High Renaissance / Mannerist Painter / Sculptor, 1475-1564)

Title: Crouching Boy

Place: Italy. Florence

Date: circa 1530-1534

Material: marble

Dimensions: height: 54 cm

Acquisition date: Entered the Hermitage in 1851; transferred from the Academy of Fine Arts

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"Do it again, ten times, a hundred times. Nothing in art must seem to be an accident, not even movement".

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