Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A naked man is sitting on a box containing masks and leans on a globe, above him a winged figure blowing the trumpet is surrounded by sleeping, fighting, copulating, masturbating and hard working figures; representing a dream. Engraving after Michelangelo.
A naked man is sitting on a box containing masks and leans on a globe, above him a winged figure blowing the trumpet is surrounded by sleeping, fighting, copulating, masturbating and hard working figures; representing a dream. Engraving after Michelangelo.
Wellcome Collection

A naked man is sitting on a box containing masks and leans on a globe, above him a winged figure blowing the trumpet is surrounded by sleeping, fighting, copulating, masturbating and hard working figures; representing a dream. Engraving after Michelangelo.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: M. Angelus Bona 5 Alta 4Lata 12 v. Hoij d. v. Stieen f. S.C.M.

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