Study of Ignudo in Sistine Chapel, Rome (recto); Paraphrase of the Ignudo Seated to Upper Right of Prophet Jeremiah in Chapel, Rome (verso)
Henry Fuseli
1795–1805
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 20 × 15.8 cm (7 7/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)inkpen and ink drawingslaid paperprints and drawingzigzagspaperpaper (fiber product)
About
Fuseli lived in Rome from 1770 to 1778. It was there that Michelangelo became his great hero and role model, and where Fuseli developed his own Michelangelesque style of drawing. Although this rapid sketch—a study of one of the male nudes (Ignudi) by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel—was probably made well after he had returned to England, Michelangelo’s art informed Fuseli’s work throughout his life.
