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Terribilità, the modern Italian spelling, or terribiltà, as Michelangelo's 16th century contemporaries tended to spell it, is a quality ascribed to his art that provokes terror, awe, or a sense of the sublime in the viewer. It is perhaps especially applied to his sculptures, such as his figures of David or in Moses.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “terribilità” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.