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Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto); Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso)
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1510–11
1.70 m
20 cm × 34 cm
About the size of an open laptop. You would need 5 of them to reach a person's height.
Against things you know the size of
- Height
- 34 cm
- Width
- 20 cm
- Medium
- red chalk over black chalk or charcoal
- Kind
- Drawing
- Made in
- Italy
- Where the measurement comes from
- Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
- As the museum records it
- Sheet: 34.3 x 24.3 cm (13 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.)
- Why this differs from the record
- Recorded as 24 cm × 34 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
- Credit
- Gift in memory of Henry G. Dalton by his nephews George S. Kendrick and Harry D. Kendrick
Ask this work
Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?
- How big is it?
- 20 cm × 34 cm. About the size of an open laptop. Measured by the museum.
- When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
- Made 1510–11. It is in the public domain, and The Cleveland Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
- Whose is it?
- Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Cleveland Museum of Art: Gift in memory of Henry G. Dalton by his nephews George S. Kendrick and Harry D. Kendrick.
- How was it made?
- Red chalk over black chalk or charcoal, made in Italy, Italy.
- Who speaks for it?
- Its record at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.
Its colours
Read from the picture. Copy a colour, keep the palette, or furnish a room in it. My palettes
Stand next to it in the gallery Record at The Cleveland Museum of Art
Four works a week, shown at their real size
One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.
Hangs well beside
Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.
