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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Timoteo Viti. The drawing shows a male nude seen from behind. The figure is walking away from the viewer with his left leg placed in front of him and his back slightly arched as he leans forwards. He has his left hand raised in the air.
Text in the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"No. 8
TIMOTEO VITI
(b. 1469?; d. 1523)
STUDY OF A NUDE MAN SEEN FROM THE BACK
Collection of Professor Selwyn Image. Black chalk. 25.8 x 14.2 cm. (10 1/8 x 5 1/2 in.).
The owner of the drawing has called attention to the general resemblance of this figure, with some divergence in detail, to the soldier seen from the back on the left-hand side of Raphael's fresco of the Liberation of St. Peter in the Stanza dell' Eliodoro."
Technique: REPRODUCTION
Technique: collotype (print)
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Timoteo Viti, Study of a Nude Man seen from the back (1932.74/8). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.105170 | Go to resource |
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