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"description": "By the end of the 1500s, Michelangelo\u2019s treatment of the nude male had permeated artistic practice. Some artists (today called Mannerists) began to stray from the master\u2019s grounding in human anatomy, emphasizing instead the expressive potential that Michelangelo brought to bear on the human form. To make an emotional impact, Giovanni de\u2019 Vecchi created fluid figures with exaggerated proportions, such as the central figure of Christ that appears here. De\u2019 Vecchi used pen and purplish watercolor to render the forms of the dead Christ surrounded by Saint John the Apostle, Nicodemus, Joseph of Arimathea, the grief-stricken Virgin Mary, Saint Mary Magdalene (at Christ\u2019s feet), and their companions, who adoringly convey his body to the tomb in the upper left. This drawing was preparatory for an altarpiece for the church of Santa Prassede in Rome.",
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"citation": "Knorn-Ezernieks, Nicola. Giovanni de' Vecchi: seine Stellung in der ro\u0308mischen Malerei um 1600 (Hildesheim-Zurich-New York, 2013., pp. 247, 330-32, cat. no. 63, illustrated",
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"citation": "Navarrete Prieto, Benito, and Gonzalo Redi\u0301n Michaus. Disegni spagnoli e italiani del Cinquecento della Biblioteca Nacional de Espan\u0303a, Roma : De Luca editori d'arte, 2020, 228.",
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