# Male Nude, Seen from the Rear \(verso\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Black chalk, heightened with white, 270 x 196 mm ## Commentary Male Nude, Seen from the Rear \(verso\) c. 1504 Black chalk, heightened with white, 270 x 196 mm Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna Both sides of this sheet contain studies of individual soldiers for the Battle of Cascina. The recto depicts two nude studies of a man, storming forward, and a man, seen from the right. The verso shows a male nude, seen from the rear. The male nude on the verso, the lower half of which has unfortunately trimmed, is a study for the lance-bearing soldier in the middle of the back row of the bathers in the cartoon. ## 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]()