Drawing

David Jon Kassan comments on Michelangelo's Male Nude. Male Nudeby Michelangelo Buonarroti, ca.1504, black chalk drawing heightened with lead white, 16 x 9. Collection Teylers Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands. Looking at Drawings: "Male Nude," by Michelangelo by David Jon Kassan This drawing of a male nude by Michelangelo was done from a live model and was a study for a fresco commission, The Battle of Cascina, which was to be painted in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio alongside Leonardo da Vinci’s The Battle of Anghiari. Neither work was completed. The sketch was done as an in-depth study to support his initial concept…