Michelangelo
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This double-sided sheet of closely observed life studies is the most magnificent drawing by Michelangelo. It is a preparatory drawing for the design of the Libyan Sibyl, the monumental enthroned female figure painted in fresco on the North-East end of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The Libyan Sibyl was the last of the seers to be frescoed on the north part of the vault, executed in a scale that is about three times life-size; the overall area of this part in the fresco measures 4.54 by 3.80 meters (about 15 by 12 1/2 feet). She is clothed except for her powerful shoulders and arms, and wears an elaborately braided coiffure. Her complex pose in the fresco, evidently requiring study in numerous drawings, plays on the arrested motion of her stepping down from the throne, while holding an enormous open book of prophecy which she is about to close.
Mind-blowing, isn't it?
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