Year c. 1530 - 1534 Dimensions 54 cm (21 in) Created 1530 | Media Marble Genre Kinetic art | |
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Periods Italian Renaissance, High Renaissance, Renaissance Similar Michelangelo artwork, Artwork at Hermitage Museum, Marble | ||
Ron mueck crouching boy
Crouching Boy is a sculpture of the great Renaissance Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo, preserved today at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, it is the only work by Michelangelo in the Hermitage Museum.
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Description
The Crouching Boy is a 54 cm marble sculpture and shows a boy, naked and turned in on himself, perhaps pulling out a thorn from his foot. Even if the statue is not well finished, facial features, hair and body shapes are easily recognizable.
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Crouching Boy Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA