Four Écorchés, Bologna

Red chalk figures from a painter’s studio.

Work: red chalk drawings
Maker: school of Bartolomeo Passarotti
Date: 16th century
Held by: Published Bologna, 16th century · Wellcome Collection

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Size

$29.00

The story

Four écorchés in red chalk, two to each of two sheets, attributed by the Wellcome Collection to the school of Bartolomeo Passarotti in Bologna. Passarotti ran one of the city's busiest studios in the later sixteenth century, and his pupils learned the figure from flayed bodies as well as from the living. The two men here stride forward with their weight on bent knees, muscles worked up in quick hatching, one turning to look behind him. Artists' anatomy, made to understand movement rather than to teach medicine.

See it on your wall

The plate, in the room it was made for

Four Écorchés, Bologna, printed large and framed — in the consulting room, the study, the library. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

Four Écorchés, Bologna framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of red chalk drawings — school of Bartolomeo Passarotti, 16th century — from the copy held by Published Bologna, 16th century · Wellcome Collection. The source. The work is centuries out of copyright and in the public domain.
Printed faithful to that source scan. We do not re-colour it, complete it, or interpret it; the plate you receive is the plate as it survives.
Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. Framed editions sit in a box frame under acrylic, with no mount.
Colour-managed to the source; the tone of the paper and the ink is the engraver’s, not ours.
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If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our plates cost more than a poster: a poster is a mass run on wood-pulp stock, colour-corrected to whatever flattered the press that day. This is one sheet, pulled for you, at a size where the engraver’s hand is visible — the linework, the tonal work, the lettering — on a matte sheet that shows every line without glare.

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