Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto)

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Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto)

Michelangelo BuonarrotiLinkedCulture matchlcp-b00e0cf62ae8

Date
1510–1511
Medium
red chalk over black chalk or charcoal
Culture
Italy, 16th century
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
119615

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Universally considered one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance, Michelangelo devoted four years to painting the vast ceiling fresco in the Sistine Chapel. This preparatory study portrays one of the 20 athletic male nudes, known as ignudi, who serve as supporting figures at each corner of the Old Testament scenes painted down the center of the ceiling. Michelangelo worked out the positioning of the ignudi in red chalk drawings before beginning to paint each section of wet plaster. The energy and monumentality of the figure in red chalk, whose body extends beyond the sheet, suggests the heroic athleticism of Michelangelo’s sculpture.

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Credit line
Gift in memory of Henry G. Dalton by his nephews George S. Kendrick and Harry D. Kendrick
Provenance
1741: Pierre Crozat, Paris (L. 3612), his sale 1741 | 1775-76: Pierre Jean Mariette (L. 1852), Paris, his sale 1775-76, lot 236 | Bürckel family, Vienna | 1933: Dr. Alexander de Frey, Temesvar, Romania, his sale, 1933, lot 7 (as school of Michelangelo) | 1934-37: with Wildenstein & Co., New York | 1937: purchased by Henry G. Dalton (1862-1939), Cleveland | 1939: by descent to his nephews George S. and Harry D. Kendrick, Cleveland | 1940-: gift to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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