# Sleeping Nude Figure [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FIGINO, Giovanni Ambrogio]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Pencil and white chalk on blue paper, 277 x 426 mm ## Commentary Sleeping Nude Figure c. 1586 Pencil and white chalk on blue paper, 277 x 426 mm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Figino learnt from his master, Giovan Paulo Lomazzo, a systematic, precise process for naturalistic rendering. He began by copying works by the best artists - Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo - then moved on to making drawings after antique sculpture, and finally was deemed capable of studying from live model. The picture shows a life study for one of the sleeping apostles in the Agony of the Garden in Santa Maria della Passione, Milan. ## Related artworks - [Metal Plate with Peaches and Vine Leaves \(detail\)]() - [Metal Plate with Peaches and Vine Leaves]() - [Portrait of Giovan Angelo Annoni]() - [Portrait of Lucio Foppa]() - [Sheet of studies]() - [St Matthew and the Angel]() - [Virgin and Child Crushing the Serpent's Head]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()