{"id":6960,"date":"2012-09-27T17:31:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T21:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=6960"},"modified":"2013-06-05T15:07:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T19:07:29","slug":"rd-14","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/rejected-paintings-sculpture\/rd-14\/","title":{"rendered":"RD.14 Nude Old Man with His Right Leg Bent and His Knee Resting on a Draped Stump Or Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RD.14 Nude Old Man<\/p><\/div>\n

Florence, Uffizi, no. 6926F.<\/p>\n

Fig.RD.14<\/a><\/p>\n

Red chalk, 36.5 x 26.<\/p>\n

LITERATURE:<\/p>\n

Berenson, 1938, 1961, no. 2430B, as Rosso, and possibly a study for Rosso\u2019s Disputation of the Angel of Death and the Devil<\/em>\u00a0of 1517.<\/p>\n

Becherucci, 1944 (1949), 26, Fig. 65a, as Rosso, similar to his Disputation<\/em> of 1517 and perhaps a study for St. Jerome.<\/p>\n

Barocchi, 1950, 210, Fig. 189, as Rosso in his Roman period.<\/p>\n

Luisa Marcucci, in Mostra di disegni<\/em>, 1954, 25, no. 36, as Rosso (?), around 1517 or 1520-1521, but not later, perhaps a copy, and perhaps a copy by Bandinelli.<\/p>\n

Luisa Marcucci, in Het Eerste Manierisme<\/em>, 1954, 45, no. 51, as above.<\/p>\n

Sinibaldi, 1960-1961, 35, no. 51, with Fig., as Rosso.<\/p>\n

Carroll, 1964 (1976), II, Bk. 2, 474-475, F. 22A, 531-533, Bk. 3, Fig. 171, as Bandinelli, and possibly for his early lost St. Jerome<\/em> relief of around 1515.<\/p>\n

Marabottini, 1969, I, 172, as Rosso, before 1524.<\/p>\n

Carroll, 1971, 26, 34, a. 29, as Bandinelli and possibly for his early lost St. Jerome<\/em> relief.<\/p>\n

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Berenson\u2019s attribution of this drawing to Rosso has been generally accepted, although Marcucci expressed some doubt, suggesting that it might be a copy by Bandinelli of a Rosso drawing.\u00a0 Prior to Berenson\u2019s attribution the drawing had been attributed to Bandinelli, according to the file card at the Uffizi.\u00a0 The drawing cannot be attributed to Rosso on the basis of the evidence of any drawings that can be securely attributed to him.\u00a0 The emaciated figure is related to some of the old men in Rosso\u2019s Disputation of the Angel of Death and the Devil<\/em>\u00a0of 1517 (Fig.D.1a<\/a>) but the specifically acute description of these figures by Rosso is not related to the much more loosely conceived and executed Nude Old Man<\/em>.\u00a0 In 1964 I thought it was by Bandinelli and possibly a study for his lost wax relief of \u201cSan Girolamo in penitenza, secchissimo; il quale mostrava in su l\u2019ossa i muscoli astenuati, e gran parte de\u2019nervi, e la pelle grinza e secca\u201d that Vasari mentioned after Bandinelli\u2019s Cleopatra<\/em> engraved by Agostino Veneziano in 1515 but that he also said was given to Giovanni and Giuliano de\u2019Medici in 1512.1<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 Ward did not catalogue the drawing in 1982, indicating that he did not think it is by Bandinelli.<\/p>\n

I continue to see the Nude Old Man <\/em>as similar graphically to the Old Testament Scene <\/em>in the British Museum (Fig.RD.19, recto<\/em><\/a>) that had been attributed to Bandinelli, to the Draped Saint Gesturing with His Right Hand<\/em> in the Uffizi (Fig.RD.11<\/a>) that seems related to Bandinelli\u2019s St. Peter<\/em>, commissioned in 1515, and to other related drawings (see RD.3<\/a>).\u00a0 These drawings have all been attributed to Rosso, wrongly I believe.\u00a0 Becherucci, Marcucci, and Sinibaldi had thought the Nude Old Man<\/em> might be related to the subject of St. Jerome.\u00a0 This seems possible and hence my association of the drawing with Vasari\u2019s remarks about Bandinelli\u2019s early relief.\u00a0 However, Ward in 1988 thought a pen and ink drawing at Chatsworth of St. Jerome in Meditation in the Wilderness<\/em> (Fig.Bandinelli, St. Jerome<\/a>) is related to that lost relief, although he thought this drawing might be a copy of a drawing by Bandinelli (five other copies are known).2<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 However, it is difficult to reconcile the muscular and hardly thin image of the saint in the Chatsworth drawing with Vasari\u2019s description of Bandinelli\u2019s relief.\u00a0 The Nude Old Man<\/em> is much more the \u201csecchissimo\u201d saint of Vasari\u2019s account.\u00a0 If the relief was in fact given to the Medici in 1512 and the Nude Old Man<\/em> is by him then it is quite an early drawing by Bandinelli, done when he was nineteen.\u00a0 However, the resemblance of its draughtsmanship to that of the figures in the episode at the right of the Old Testament Scene<\/em>, which might date from the 1540s, brings up the possibility that the Uffizi drawing is considerably later – it certainly does not have the vigor of the Draped Saint Gesturing with His Right Hand<\/em> – and by a pupil, assistant or follower of Bandinelli.\u00a0 How it may, or may not, be related to Bandinelli\u2019s early drawing and relief of St. Jerome remains to be discovered.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>1<\/sup> Vasari-Milanesi, VI, 140-141.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/a>2<\/sup> Ward, 1988, 24-25, 90, Fig.\u00a0 Ward, 1982, 198, no. 19, Fig. 198, as an autograph ricordo<\/em> of Bandinelli\u2019s St. Jerome<\/em>, although Ward did not say of the original drawing or of the relief.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florence, Uffizi, no. 6926F. Fig.RD.14 Red chalk, 36.5 x 26. LITERATURE: Berenson, 1938, 1961, no. 2430B, as Rosso, and possibly a study for Rosso\u2019s Disputation of the Angel of Death and the Devil\u00a0of 1517. Becherucci, 1944 (1949), 26, Fig. 65a, as Rosso, similar to his Disputation of 1517 and perhaps a study for St. Jerome. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":1357,"menu_order":114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6960","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9443,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6960\/revisions\/9443"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}