# Male Upper Body with Folded Hands \(verso\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Red and black chalk, pen and brown ink, 272 x 192 mm ## Commentary The verso of the sheet is filled with studies of a male torso and folded hands. Although it was assumed by scholars that the studies were initially conceived for the figure of Eve in the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, in fact they served as models for Sebastiano del Piombo's Madonna in the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/s/sebastia/pieta.html'\)" href="/html/s/sebastia/pieta.html">Pietà.</a> Apart from the central torso, the sheet is filled with detailed studies of the Virgin Mary's folded hands in red chalk, black chalk, and pen and brown ink. ## Related artworks - [A Man Lifting a Boar onto his Shoulder \(verso\)]() - [Abraham - Isaac - Jacob - Judah]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud]() - [Aeneas with a Boy \(recto\)]() - [Allegorical figure]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()