# Three standing nude men [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RAFFAELLO Sanzio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen and brown ink, 243 x 148 mm ## Commentary This drawing shows three standing nude men and the leg of a fourth. It seems to come from a moment in Raphael's career when he was copying the Florentine masters and making variations on their inventions. Raphael used pen and ink extensively from 1505, when he was open to the influence of Leonardo's and Michelangelo's. Pen and ink allowed for strong delineation, but called for adding sequences of hatching to endow the form with mass and solidity. It was particularly suited for figure studies and the investigation of anatomical structures. Raphael utilized the springy, active lines of the pen in his study of Three Standing Nude Men, a drawing that particularly examines the relationship of contour to volume. ## Related artworks - [A Group of Nude Men]() - [A Group of Warriors]() - [A nude man advancing to the right \(verso\)]() - [A Soldier before the Cell of St Peter]() - [A Youthful Warrior \(recto\)]() - [Adam and Eve \(ceiling panel\)]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aldobrandini Madonna \(Garvagh Madonna\)]() - [Allegory \(The Knight's Dream\)]() - [Amorini at play \(verso\)]() - [An Angel]() - [Angel \(fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()