Sketches of Five Arms and a Head (verso)

Description

Luzio Romano’s drawing of arms and a head were made from a flayed body (a cadaver with its skin removed). The triangle placed over the facial profile points to the Renaissance artist’s interest in geometry and to the idea that the human body is the primary model of perfect proportions.

Provenance

[P. & D. Colnaghi Co.]

Sketches of Five Arms and a Head (verso)

Luzio Romano

mid 1500s

Accession Number

1925.1190.b

Medium

pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, and charcoal underdrawing

Dimensions

Sheet: 31.6 x 21.6 cm (12 7/16 x 8 1/2 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Dudley P. Allen Fund