id:			140466
accession number:	1964.379
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.379
updated:		2023-01-11 01:53:54.809000

Arm Bones, early 1540s. Battista Franco (Italian, c. 1510–1561). Pen and brown ink with incised lines; sheet: 11.8 x 36.7 cm (4 5/8 x 14 7/16 in.); secondary support: 11.8 x 36.7 cm (4 5/8 x 14 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cassirer 1964.379

title:				Arm Bones
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creation date:			early 1540s
creation date earliest:		1540
creation date latest:		1545
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cassirer
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culture:	Italy, 16th century
technique:	pen and brown ink with incised lines
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Italian
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Battista Franco (Italian, c. 1510–1561)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 11.8 x 36.7 cm (4 5/8 x 14 7/16 in.); Secondary Support: 11.8 x 36.7 cm (4 5/8 x 14 7/16 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	two sheets (joined) light brown laid paper, laid down on cream(3) laid(?) paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in graphite: 2.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review (1964)
	opening date:   1965-01-01T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review (1964)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 1-31, 1965).

	title:		Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection
	opening date:   1990-08-07T04:00:00
	<i>Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

	title:		Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance
	opening date:   2019-10-13T04:00:00
	<i>Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, Ars Medica (Aug. 3-Dec. 12, 1965).<br>CMA, "Year in Review for 1964" (Dec. 8, 1964-Feb. 17, 1965), cma Bulletin 51 (1964), p. 265 no. 115.

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PROVENANCE

	Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (Lugt 2445, lower left, blind stamped). Samuel Woodburn, London (according to departmental cataloguing sheet, sale 4-8 June 1860, Christie's London; Lugt 2584, not stamped). Boguslaw Jolles, Dresden and Vienna (Lugt 381a, lower left, in blue ink; according to departmental cataloguing sheet, sale 28-31 October 1895, Munich). Prof. Otto Neubauer, Munich and London (according to departmental card). Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cassirer, Cleveland
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fun fact:


digital description:
Michelangelo was among the first artists in Europe to attend a human dissection and to adopt anatomical knowledge as a necessity for depicting the human figure. These drawings by Battista Franco reflect the increased—and slightly macabre—interest in the interior workings of the human body inspired in part by Michelangelo’s example. Here, the groupings of arm bones, though rendered accurately, are placed into decorative piles. The odd assembly vacillates between scientific study and a symbolic memento mori, or reminder of death.

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