Crouching Boy

Crouching Boy
Crouching Boy ("Ragazzo accovacciato")
Michelangelo-Buonarroti-Crouching Boy-3-Hermitage2.jpg
Artist Michelangelo
Year c. 1530 - 1534
Type Marble
Dimensions 54 cm (21 in)
Location Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Crouching Boy is a sculpture of the great Renaissance Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo, preserved today at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, it is the only work by Michelangelo in the Hermitage Museum.

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The Crouching Boy is a 54 cm marble sculpture and shows a naked and turned in on itself boy, perhaps pulling out a thorn from his foot. Even if the statue is not well finished, facial features, hair and body shapes are easily recognizable.

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