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This drawing has The Dream of Human Life (verso) on the reverse

Artist: Buonarroti, Michelangelo (207)

Period: 16th century (4547)

Type: chalk (1605)

Style: Italian (1758) | Renaissance (558)

Subjects: Vices (6)

Keywords
allegory (1260) | angels (1480) | dreams (10) | fighting (69) | globes (cartographic spheres) (60) | masks (costume) (41) | nudes (1730)

The Dream of Human Life

Circa 1533

Buonarroti, Michelangelo    more

Black chalk on paper

height: 39.6 cm; width: 27.9 cm

Acquisition
Princes Gate; bequest; 1978
D.1978.PG.424

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of capital transfer tax and presented to the Samuel Courtauld Trust for The Courtauld Gallery in 1981.