# Study of a Head Looking Upward \(recto\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Red chalk, 199 x 172 mm ## Commentary The upward looking head is probably a preliminary drawing for the head of the Madonna in the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/2paintin/0doniton.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/2paintin/0doniton.html">Doni Tondo</a> in the Uffizi. Some scholars have suggested a connection between the drawing and the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/3sistina/3prophet/10\_3pr7b.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/3sistina/3prophet/10\_3pr7b.html">head of Jonah</a> on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. According to them, the sheet was created around 1511, with the artist adopting the head of the Doni Madonna in mirror image for the head of Jonah. The verso of the sheet contains red chalk caricatures of a head looking upward. ## 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]()