MICHELANGELO Buonarroti
(b. 1475, Caprese, d. 1564, Roma)

Studies of Two Male Torsi and a Right Leg

1524-25
Pen and brown ink, 262 x 266 mm
Casa Buonarroti, Florence

The studies on the present sheet are related to the sitting statue at the tomb of Giuliano de' Medici in the Medici Chapel in San Lorenzo, Florence.

The preparatory drawings for the wall-tomb figures in the Medici Chapel, among them the present sheet, were created in the design phase of 1524-25.