Study of a Standing Male Nude / Gaetano Gandolfi / Attributed to
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.199.2
- Title
- Study of a Standing Male Nude
- Artist
- Gaetano Gandolfi
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Artist Life Dates
- (1728 - 1781)
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- Object Creation Date
- 1760-1780
- 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
- Period
- Europe, Baroque (1590-1750)
- Dimensions
- 91.3 cm x 67.8 cm (35 15/16 in. x 26 11/16 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- figure painting
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- study
- Physical Description
- A nude, muscular man, seen from behind, leans upon his left leg, which is propped on a rock. He grasps a stick for support with his left hand, while bending his torso to the right and looking downward. The lighting and colors vaguely suggest an outdoor environment.
- 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 holds a complex pose that balances his body in tension. Undoubtedly painted in a studio, the props that the model uses for support are transformed into a rock and a stick while the walls of the studio are dissolved into a hazy outdoor setting.
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- bologna (inhabited place)
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- nudes
- oil painting
- Secondary Keywords
- bologna (province)
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- europe (continent)
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Record
- 2008/2.199.2
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.199.2/2008_2_199_2.jpg
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"Study of a Standing Male Nude; Gaetano Gandolfi; Attributed to." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.199.2/2008_2_199_2.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.
