The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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use of the pen in his last years. How little it has changed

in sixty years!”). Thode, 1908 , II, pp. 80 , 445 (Perhaps

for theConversion of PaulbuttheFall of the Rebel Angelsor

Brazen Serpentalso possible.). K. Frey, 1909 – 11 ,no. 279 c

(Perhaps for a composition of theBrazen Serpent.). Thode,

1913 ,no. 445 (Connected with a group of drawings in

the Casa Buonarroti; probably for Bugiardini’sMartyrdom

of Saint Catherine.). Baumgart, 1935 a,p. 345 (Daniele da

Volterra). Berenson, 1938 ,no.15 7 3(Much earlier, per-

haps related toBrazen Serpenton ceiling.). Delacre, 1938 ,

pp. 402 – 4 (Links with Casa Buonarroti group including

asketch of theTr ansfiguration.). Wilde, 1953 a,pp. 86 – 7

(Other drawings in group are the Casa Buonarroti group,

BM W 51 /Corpus 252 bis and Haarlem A 31 /VT 61 /Cor-

pus 341. Studies for an outline drawing made to help

Bugiardini with hisMartyrdom of Saint Catherine,proba-

bly 1531 – 2 .). Wilde, 1953 exh., no. 123 .Parker, 1956 ,no.

321 (c. 1532 ; made for Bugiardini; connected with Casa

Buonarroti group, Haarlem A 31 /Corpus 341 , and BM

W 51 /Corpus 252 bis.). Dussler, 1959 ,no.35 0(Ascribed to

Michelangelo; link with Casa Buonarroti group.). Beren-

son, 1961 ,no.15 7 3 (As 1903 / 1938 .). Barocchi, 1962 ,

pp. 155 – 60 (Grouped with CB 17 F, 18 F, 38 F, 67 F, 68 F,

and, probably, 58 F. Purpose uncertain: Connection with

Bugiardini’sMartyrdom of Saint Catherinepossible, but also

withLast JudgementandBrazen Serpent.c. 1531 – 2 .). Berti,

1965 ,pp. 448 – 50 (Has been connected with Bugiardini’s

Martyrdom of Saint Catherinebut this is uncertain; with

related sketches in Casa Buonarroti, forms a chain of

movements in the spirit of a ballet. Neither tragic or

dramatic but series of amusing variations.). Hartt, 1971 ,

no. 170 ( 1517 – 18 ?. Connected with group of drawings

in Casa Buonarroti, for a relief of theMartyrdom of Saint

Lawrencefor the San Lorenzo fac ̧ade.). Gere and Turner,

1975 ,no. 110 (Connection with Bugiardini questionable;

“Figures of this kind would have been equally in place in a

Resurrection.”). De Tolnay, 1975 ,Corpus I, no. IV, p. 135

(Omitted by error; one of the series of studies for the

Tr ansfiguration.). Barolsky, 1979 ,p. 149 (Notes Baumgart’s

attribution.).

CATALOGUE 38

Recto: Plan of the Interior Reliquary Platform of San

Lorenzo and the Unexecuted Exterior Balcony

Ve r so: A Standing Male Figure Seen from the Right

184 6. 57 ;R. 49 ;P.II 311 ; Corpus 260

Dimensions: 258 × 332 mm

Watermark: Robinson Appendix no. 13 , Roberts Lamb

C.

Medium

Recto: Pen, brush, and wash.

Ve r so: Black chalk; lightly squared in black chalk at

31 mm.