The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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to strike downwards with his right arm. Even though

Michelangelo’s originals and other similar drawings now

lost might in principle have been made for theLast Judge-

ment–hewould certainly have been thinking about the

fresco during his final period in Florence, and Raffaello

could well have known drawings made in preparation

for it – it seems on balance more likely that they were

made for theSamson and the Two Philistines,onwhich

Michelangelo was working in15 2 8,asculptural project

of unparalleled dynamism that would have fascinated

Raffaello.

History

Jonathan Richardson Senior (L. 2184 ); Richard Cosway

(L. 628 ); Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445 ); Samuel Wood-

burn.

References

Lawrence Inventory?, 1830 , Case 3 , Drawer 3 (Anatomi-

cal Studies of Arms, Legs. etc.). Woodburn,184 2,no. 53

(“A Pentimento of three legs-shewing the knee joints;

black chalk [sic].”). Robinson,187 0,no. 44 (Michel

Angelo: probably for one of the Medici Dukes; “it does

not seem quite clear whether these studies were drawn

from actual dissection or from the living model.”). Black,

1875 ,p. 214 ,no. 41. Gotti, 1875 , II, p. 233 .Berenson,

1903 ,I,pp. 255 , 257 ,no. 1711 (Montelupo.). Thode,

1913 ,no. 427 (Not Michelangelo; agrees with Beren-

son.). Berenson, 1938 ,I,pp. 257 , 259 ,no. 1711 (As

1903 .Verso: “The prostrate figures may be copied from

asketch for the Brazen Serpent by Michelangelo.”).

Wilde, 1953 a,p. 94 (The torso and arm found in Mon-

telupo’s drawing, made at the beginning of his associ-

ation with Michelangelo in 1533 ,follow two sketches

byMichelangelo superimposed on pupil sketches, on

BM W 57 verso/Corpus 220 .). Parker, 1956 ,no. 408 ,

(“The shading is left-handed and the attribution to Mon-

telupo beyond question....Similar studies of a leg bent

at the knee occur on....Uffizi Inv. 622 E/Corpus 223 .”).

Berenson, 1961 ,no. 1711 (As 1903 / 1938 .). Barocchi,

1962 ,p. 257 (Montelupo.).