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Skeleton
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About this work
Michelangelo was among the first artists in Europe to attend a human dissection and to adopt anatomical knowledge as a necessity for depicting the human figure. These drawings of anatomically accurate skeletons by Battista Franco reflect the increased—and slightly macabre—interest in the interior workings of the human body inspired in part by Michelangelo’s example.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineSkeleton, early 1540s. Battista Franco (Italian, c. 1510–1561). Pen and brown ink; incised. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cassirer, 1964.380
