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    |  Michelangelo (1475-1564), Pieta,
      1498-99/1500, St. Peter's Rome. |  
     German Pieta, 14th century. |  
  
  
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     Michelangelo, detail of the
      head of Christ from the Pieta. |  
  
  
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     Michelangelo, detail of the
      head of the Virgin from the Pieta. |  
  
  
    
      
              
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    | Michelangelo, Doni Madonna, c. 1503. |  
    Leonardo, Madonna, Child, and St.
      Anne, c. 1508. |  
  
  
    
      
              
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    |  Michelangelo, David, 1501-4. |  
     Exterior of the Palazzo Vecchio |  
  
  
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    | Foreground lions of the Loggia de Lanzi and background David flanking entrance to the Palazzo Vecchio. |  
     Polykleitos, Doryphoros, 450-440
      B.C. |  
  
  
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     Michelangelo, detail of the
      head of David. |  
  
  
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     Michelangelo, detail of the
      hand of David. |  
  
  
    
      
              
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    |  .Michelangelo, Sistine Ceiling,
      1508-1512. Sistine Chapel, Vatican Rome. |  
     Michelangelo, Creation of Adam,
      from the Sistine Ceiling. |  
  
  
    
      
              
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    |  Michelangelo, detail of God
      in the Creation of Adam. |  
     Laocoon,, Greek, Hellenistic,
      1st c. B.C. (unearthed in Rome in the early sixteenth century) |  
  
  
    
      
              
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    |  Michelangelo, detail of the
      hand of Adam and God from the Creation of Adam |  
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    |  Moses, from the Tomb of Julius
      II, 1513-16. |  
     Details of the head and hand
      of Moses. |