"I can see the humanity in a way, the figure breathing."
Curator Carmen Bambach on Michelangelo's "Studies for the Libyan Sibyl."
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Deconstructing Michelangelo's process from a Sistine Chapel study
"I can see the humanity in a way, the figure breathing."
Carmen C. Bambach
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Carmen C. Bambach
Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
ca. 1510–11