id:			148293
accession number:	1975.26.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.26.b
updated:		2023-03-11 20:51:04.801000

Study of a Flayed Torso (verso), 1554. Bartolommeo da Arezzo (Italian, active about 1550–80). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk; incised; 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.b

title:				Study of a Flayed Torso (verso)
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creation date:			1554
creation date earliest:		1554
creation date latest:		1554
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creditline:			L. E. Holden Fund
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culture:	Italy, 16th century
technique:	pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk; incised
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Italian
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Bartolommeo da Arezzo (Italian, active about 1550–80)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 40.5 x 27.6 cm (15 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	cream(3) laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, lower right, in brown ink: demano de bar / tolomeo aretino / 1554 ; by artist(?), upper right, in brown ink: [5?] [over- and underlined] ; by artist(?), lower left, in brown ink: N° 9 ; by artist(?), lower right, in brown ink: [N. 15?] 
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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

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PROVENANCE

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fun fact:


digital 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 (verso), he drew a flayed torso.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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: P. 9; Mentioned: P. 8.
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IMAGES

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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.26.b/1975.26.b_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.26.b/1975.26.b_full.tif