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    so-called ignudi, which are not part of the architecture but sit on plinths, their feet planted convincingly on the fictive cornice. Pictorially, the ignudi appear...
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    the ignudi represent angels and that the Bronze Nudes below the ignudi are fallen angels. Two shields or medallions accompany each set of four ignudi in...
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    The Ezechias spandrel shows a small child gazing out of the picture. The Ignudi that surround the narrative scenes may show the perfection of Humanity,...
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  • Vestire gli ignudi (Italian pronunciation: [veˈstiːre ʎʎ iɲˈɲuːdi]) is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Marcello Pagliero and starring Gabriele Ferzetti...
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    Madonna and Child with Ignudi is a tempera on panel painting by Luca Signorelli, created c. 1490, produced for the Medici Villa di Castello, where it was...
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    four short stories) Vestire gli ignudi, directed by Marcello Pagliero (Italy, 1954, based on the play Vestire gli ignudi) Never Say Goodbye, directed by...
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    Saint John the Baptist is a semi-circular ridge, against which the Sistine ignudi are leaning, or upon which they are sitting. This semi-circle reflects or...
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    Sistine Chapel ceiling, Ignudi, Michelangelo, 1509...
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    angels, as muses, or simply as decoration. Michelangelo referred to them as "ignudi". The figure reproduced may be seen in context in the above image of the...
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    the Dying Slave, created for the tomb of Pope Julius II. Several of the ignudi and the figure of Haman in the Sistine Chapel ceiling draw on the figures...
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