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A Standing Male Nude (recto); A Standing Male Nude (verso)
Creator
Giovanni Battista NaldiniItalian Artist · 1537–1591
All works by this person →Giovanni Battista Naldini created a unique Mannerist style that borrowed not only from his masters Jacopo Pontormo and Giorgio Vasari but from their teacher, Andrea del Sarto. He adopted Vasari's forms, but his art's feeling and energy--though softened--came from Pontormo. From del Sarto, Naldini absorbed intimate, sentimental, and painterly elements. While his teachers ranked line over color, Nal
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- 1590
- Medium
- Black, red and white chalk, squared in black and red chalk (recto); red chalk (verso)
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Giovanni Battista Naldini used each side of this page to experiment with several positions for this male nude's arms and legs. On the recto, the man leans sharply forward, hands wrapped around the ledge or with the fingers folded under, knuckles supporting his weight in an alternate pose. The red chalk study on the verso, which is faintly drawn and somewhat rubbed, shows the same figure with his hands placed in the higher of the two positions from the recto. The striking pose of these figures closely recalls an onlooker in a fresco by Andrea del Sarto in a Florentine church.
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