Michelangelo Buonarroti, Studies from the ceiling of the Sistine chapel, with figures sitting, including a woman holding a baby on the top left, an elderly man holding a young child top right, a woman with a lyre in the centre. A standing child with right arm raised on the left, 1789.
Etching and aquatint. 250 mm x 400 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Studies from the ceiling of the Sistine chapel, with figures sitting, including a woman holding a baby on the top left, an elderly man holding a young child top right, a woman with a lyre in the centre. A standing child with right arm raised on the left, 1789
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
RA Collection: Art
250 mm x 400 mm
Imitations Of Ancient And Modern Drawings Engraved And Published By C. M. Metz; - London: [1789]
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