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Casa Buonarotti (70, Via Ghibellina) is home to two early sculptures by Michelangelo).
The Madonna of the Stairs (c.1490)
Carved in "rilievo schiacciato", shallow relief, this is the earliest work by Michelangelo to have survived.
The Battle of the Centaurs (1492)
This relief also belongs to Michelangelo's youth and here we see him looking to classical sculpture for inspiration.
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