# Four Studies for the Crucified Haman \(recto\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Red chalk, 406 x 207 mm ## Commentary Four Studies for the Crucified Haman \(recto\) c. 1512 Red chalk, 406 x 207 mm British Museum, London The red chalk studies on the present sheet are connected with the figure of <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/3sistina/5spandre/10\_1pe3.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/3sistina/5spandre/10\_1pe3.html">Haman</a> on the southwestern vault pendentive of the Sistine Chapel. For this drawing Michelangelo studied the figure on a living model and rendered it with the greatest of care, as Haman was not only the central figure of the fresco, but also gave the artist an opportunity to demonstrate a new, monumental body ideal that he had started to develop around 1510. The verso of the sheet shows further detailed studies of Haman's upper body. ## 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]()