Study of a Seated Male Nude / Ubaldo Gandolfi

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Accession Number
2008/2.199.1
Title
Study of a Seated Male Nude
Artist Nationality
Italian
Artist Life Dates
1728-1781
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
Object Creation Date
18th century
Object Creation Place
Europe (continent)
Italy (nation)
Emilia-Romagna (region)
Bologna (province)
Bologna (inhabited place)
Creation Place 1
Europe (continent)
Creation Place 2
Italy (nation)
Creation Place 3
Emilia-Romagna (region)
Creation Place 4
Bologna (province)
Creation Place 5
Bologna (inhabited place)
Style/Group/Movement
Baroque
Dimensions
90.8 cm x 68 cm (35 3/4 in. x 26 3/4 in.)
Century
18th century
Primary Object Classification
Painting
Primary Object Type
figure painting
Physical Description
A muscular young male nude, seen in profile from the left, sits on a rock in a vaguely suggested outdoor setting.
Subject Matter
By producing such finely painted studies of nudes, Ubaldo and Gaetano Gandolfi, the leading artists of eighteenth-century Bologna, perfected their skills at representing human anatomy. The brothers and their followers produced many similar paintings and numerous drawn studies of nudes as a fundamental part of their artistic training and practice. Here the model adopts a seated pose that creates an interesting articulation of limbs and muscles through the interplay of passages of light and shadow. Undoubtedly painted in a studio, the interior walls are dissolved into a hazy outdoor setting.
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2008/2.199.1
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"Study of a Seated Male Nude; Ubaldo Gandolfi." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.199.1/2008_2_199_1.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
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