# Male Nude Seen from Three Angles [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [POLLAIUOLO brothers]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Pen and wash in brown ink, 265 x 360 mm ## Commentary 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. ## Related artworks - [Altarpiece of the Sts Vincent, James, and Eustace]() - [Angel \(detail\)]() - [Apollo and Daphne]() - [Battle of Ten Nudes]() - [Battle of Ten Nudes]() - [Battle of Ten Nudes]() - [Bust of a Young Warrior]() - [David Victorious]() - [Hercules and Antaeus]() - [Hercules and Antaeus]() - [Hercules and Antaeus]() - [Hercules and Antaeus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()