Male Nude Torso with Raised Arms, Parmigianino, ca. 1522–24

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Male Nude Torso with Raised Arms, ca. 1522–24, Red chalk, 4 1/8 x 2 3/16in. ( x ), Drawings, Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore), Popham considered this small, delicately executed study a pre-Roman drawing by the artist, copied probably from an antique statue of the Flaying of Marsyas. However, the pose of the shoulders and armpit here does not seem to correspond to the tight compression of the shoulders and disjointed raising of the arms, with wrists bound above the head, that is typical of Marsyas figures

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