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This drawing shows three different aspects of standing male nude and two studies of arms.
In the middle of the fifteenth century Florentine artists treated the human figure primarily as a motif, without sufficient interest in its anatomical representation. Although drawing from life was already a standard practice in the 1470s and 1480s, the majority of surviving studies are mere repetitions of conventional and static poses. The drawings by Antonio Pollaiuolo served as primary models for a rather limited figure repertoire, which Florentine painters integrated in their works with great diversity.
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