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Source Description
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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Document identity
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148292
label
Two Studies of a Flayed Man (recto)
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obj
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
id
148292
contentType
drawing
title
Two Studies of a Flayed Man (recto)
description
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.
date
1554
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79928546
creators
22471
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 40.5 x 27.6 cm (15 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
cul
Italy, 16th century
accession
1975.26.a
Source extras
tec
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; incised (both figures) and pricked (left figure)
tombstone
Two Studies of a Flayed Man (recto), 1554. Bartolommeo da Arezzo (Italian, active about 1550–80). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; incised (both figures) and pricked (left figure); sheet: 40.5 x 27.6 cm (15 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, L. E. Holden Fund, 1975.26.a
supportMaterials
description
cream(3) laid paper (old perimeter mount still adhered to edges)
collection
DR - Italian
inscriptions
inscription
signed, lower right, in brown ink: demano de bart / aretino . 1554 . [underlined] ; by artist(?), lower center, in brown ink: N° 10 ; lower right, in graphite [Bartolo° T?] [partially masked]
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L. E. Holden Fund
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2026-05-29 07:37:21.811000
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148292
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Drawings
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DR - Italian
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pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; incised (both figures) and pricked (left figure)
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male
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Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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dc8d268565e93d08