Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso), 1510-11. The verso of this drawing features several close-up preparatory studies of the foot and toes of an ignudo (athletic male nude) as well as two studies of a head and shoulders that have not been linked to any figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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