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Muscles and bones of the leg
Bartolomeo Torre, Italian, 1529 - 1554
x1948-757
According to Giorgio Vasari, the artist Bartolomeo Torri was so deeply absorbed with anatomical research that he “kept so many limbs and pieces of men under his bed, and all over his rooms, that they poisoned the whole house.” In this large drawing, Torri rendered the muscles and bones of the leg with touches of wash, in an abbreviated manner and with limited anatomical detail.
Information
Title
Muscles and bones of the leg
Maker
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper
Dimensions
42.6 × 26 cm (16 3/4 × 10 1/4 in.)
frame: 61.9 × 46.7 × 3.2 cm (24 3/8 × 18 3/8 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-757
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 15
Culture
Materials
Subject
A friend of Alessandro Nova at the Louvre apparently believes this to be Bortolomeo Torre (Aretino artist, d. ca. 1554).;
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: p. 116, no. 379 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- Domenico Laurenza, "Art and anatomy in Renaissance Italy: images from a scientific revolution", Bulletin (Metropolitan Museum of Art) 69, no. 3 (Winter, 2012): p. 4-48., p. 32, fig. 42
