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Both Baccio Bandinelli and Michelangelo made figure drawing the foundation of their artistic and inventive processes. In this drawing, Bandinelli reimagined one of Michelangelo’s <em>ignudi</em>, the athletic male nudes that decorate the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Probably drawing from a live model, Bandinelli combined controlled, defined lines and smudges to create a massively muscled form, that, like Michelangelo’s figures, refers to ancient sculpture as well as to knowledge of anatomy. His use of red chalk—Michelangelo’s preferred medium for sketching the ignudi—suggests that he sought to compare his own prowess in the medium to that of the better-known master.
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160699
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Seated Male Nude
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drawing
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160699
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drawing
title
Seated Male Nude
description
Both Baccio Bandinelli and Michelangelo made figure drawing the foundation of their artistic and inventive processes. In this drawing, Bandinelli reimagined one of Michelangelo’s <em>ignudi</em>, the athletic male nudes that decorate the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Probably drawing from a live model, Bandinelli combined controlled, defined lines and smudges to create a massively muscled form, that, like Michelangelo’s figures, refers to ancient sculpture as well as to knowledge of anatomy. His use of red chalk—Michelangelo’s preferred medium for sketching the ignudi—suggests that he sought to compare his own prowess in the medium to that of the better-known master.
date
c. 1516–20
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79982323
creators
22519
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 40 x 23.7 cm (15 3/4 x 9 5/16 in.)
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Italy, 16th century
accession
1998.6
Source extras
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red chalk
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Seated Male Nude, c. 1516–20. Baccio Bandinelli (Italian, 1493–1560). Red chalk; sheet: 40 x 23.7 cm (15 3/4 x 9 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1998.6
supportMaterials
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beige(2) laid paper, lined with Japanese paper
collection
DR - Italian
didYouKnow
Bandinelli's drawing of a moody nude combines his knowledge of ancient sculpture and paintings by Michelangelo with observation from life.
citations
citation
Ward, Roger. Baccio Bandinelli as a Draughtsman. Ph.D Dissertation, University of London, 1982.
page_number
no. 265
citation
Ward, Roger, "Observations on the Red Chalk Figure Studies of Baccio Bandinelli: Two Examples in Melbourne," Art Bulletin of Victoria No. 23 (1982): pp. 19-37
page_number
pp. 32-36; illus. p. 31
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, “Painting by 18th-century Italian Master Gaetano Gandolfi among Works Added to CMA Collection,” March 24, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
citation
"Museum Acquisitions: Cleveland Acquires Bandinelli," Drawing 20 (Fall 1998).
page_number
p. 26 (illus)
citation
DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: cat. no. 7, p. 11, pp. 34-35, 284; Reproduced: p. 35
citation
Joannides, Paul, and Raphael. Raphael and His Age: Drawings from the Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Lille. [France]: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 2002.
page_number
p. 32, fig. 14
citation
Olszewski, Edward J., Burton L. Dunbar, and Robert Munman. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings. 2 Vols. London: Harvey Miller, 2008.
page_number
vol. 1, no. 15, pp. 18-19
citation
Peters, Emily. “Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>59, no. 5 (September/October 2019): 8-9.
page_number
Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 8.
creditline
John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 08:20:54.688000
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160699
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Drawings
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DR - Italian
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red chalk
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male
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