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Study of Ignudo in Sistine Chapel, Rome (recto); Paraphrase of the Ignudo Seated to Upper Right of Prophet Jeremiah in Chapel, Rome (verso)

Henry Fuseli (Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825)

Date: c. 1800
Medium: Pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper
Culture: England
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago

Fuseli lived in Rome from 1770 to 1778. It was there that Michelangelo became his great hero and role model, and where Fuseli developed his own Michelangelesque style of drawing. Although this rapid sketch—a study of one of the male nudes ( Ignudi ) by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel—was probably made well after he had returned to England, Michelangelo’s art informed Fuseli’s work throughout his life.

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