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Sketches of Five Arms and a Head (verso)
Luzio Luzimid 1500s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Sketches of Five Arms and a Head (verso)
- Creator: Luzio Romano (Italian, active 1528-75)
- Date Created: mid 1500s
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 31.6 x 21.6 cm (12 7/16 x 8 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: [P. & D. Colnaghi Co.]
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.1190.b
- Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, and charcoal underdrawing
- Inscriptions: lower left, in graphite: A. 3104 ; lower center, in graphite: 12
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: Italy, 16th century
- Credit Line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Collection: DR - Italian
- Accession Number: 1925.1190.b
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