Cleveland Museum of Art
Two Studies of a Flayed Man (recto)
Bartolommeo da ArezzoLinkedCulture matchlcp-e8897ffe2b2b
- Date
- 1554
- Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; incised (both figures) and pricked (left figure)
- Culture
- Italy, 16th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 148292
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
In order to understand the movement of the human form, Michelangelo was known to have studied flayed bodies (cadavers with their skin removed) and in fact made several drawings of them. Bartolommeo da Arezzo—a follower of Michelangelo working a generation after the master—became obsessed with studying corpses, even stealing them from local graveyards. On one side of this sheet (recto), he drew two views of the lower part of the same body, which is half flayed and shown hanging above the ground.
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- Credit line
- L. E. Holden Fund
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