Study of a Seated Male Nude / Ubaldo Gandolfi
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.199.1
- Title
- Study of a Seated Male Nude
- Artist
- Ubaldo Gandolfi
- 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
- Period
- Europe, Baroque (1590-1750)
- 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.
- Secondary Keywords
- bologna (province)
- emilia-romagna (region)
- europe (continent)
- figures (representations)
- geographic and political locations
- italy (nation)
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Record
- 2008/2.199.1
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.199.1/2008_2_199_1.jpg
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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 June 01, 2024.