New Episode: 82nd & Fifth THINKING ALOUD with Carmen Bambach

Did you know that a boy posed for this Michelangelo study, which was to depict a female, the figure of the Libyan Sibyl? To curator Carmen Bambach, the boy’s personality is captured in this drawing. “I can see the humanity in a way, the figure breathing,” she says.http://met.org/15v1AN6 

Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475–1564) | Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso) (detail) | ca. 1510–1511