Deposition of Christ
Michelangelo Buonarroti · n.d. · Brush and brown ink, heightened with red chalk, over graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Deposition of Christ is a public-domain drawing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, dated n.d.. Brush and brown ink, heightened with red chalk, over graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Deposition of Christ” (n.d.) is most often a study of the body, made toward a sculpture or toward the Sistine ceiling rather than as a finished easel picture.
About the artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was a Florentine sculptor, painter, and architect. The drawings are often studies of the body for sculpture or for the Sistine ceiling.
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