![]() All the muscles are tensed simultaneously, which is anatomically impossible, but deeply poetic. “They are striving for something but are bound. “His figures are always exerting themselves,” observes Rubenstein. “With his mastery of painting, sculpture and the architectural, no artist-with the possible exception of Leonardo-was more technically gifted,” says Rhoda Eitel-Porter, the head of the department of drawings at the Morgan Library, in New York City. But if any aspiring draftsman over the last 50 years has approached the rippling human anatomy in comics with admiration, he has come to Michelangelo’s work with awe. Some artists have drawn the parallel between this Italian master’s work and the fantastical, muscle-bound forms in comic books. His Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most celebrated feats in art history, but those interested in drawings focus on the more than 90 chalk-and-ink works Michelangelo (1475–1564) made in preparation for this and other commissions. “It’s more tonal and delicate than many of his other drawings.” “This drawing suggests the influence of Leonardo,” says Rubenstein. Collection Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England. Michelangelo Buonarotti Head of a Young Man (?) by Michelangelo, ca.
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