Collection Online as of December 4, 2023

Two Studies of a Flayed Man (recto) Study of a Flayed Torso (verso)

1554

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Bartolommeo da Arezzo

(Italian, active about 1550–80)

Italy, 16th century

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; incised (both figures) and pricked (left figure)

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

L. E. Holden Fund 1975.26

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower right, in brown ink: demano de bart / aretino . 1554 . [underlined] ; by artist(?), lower center, in brown ink: N° 10 ; lower right, in graphite [Bartolo° T?] [partially masked]

Exhibition history

The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).

Science within Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-April 20, 1980).

Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020).