Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011595Sketches of Five Arms and a Head (verso)
by Luzio Romano
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
lower left, in graphite: A. 3104 ; lower center, in graphite: 12
Provenance
[P. & D. Colnaghi Co.]
Exhibition history
Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Luzio Romano (Italian, active 1528–75)
- Date
- mid 1500s
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Accession no.
- 1925.1190.b
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