Seated Male Nude from the Back (recto); Sleeping Male Nude (verso)

Onorio Marinari was an Italian draughtsman active in seventeenth-century Florence whose drawings demonstrate a precise command of figure and narrative composition. Working primarily in pen and ink, he developed a distinctive approach to biblical and historical subjects that circulated widely among collectors and artists of his time. His sheets reveal careful study of human anatomy and drapery, executed with a disciplined hand that bridges the observational practices of the High Renaissance with the more theatrical spatial arrangements of Baroque art.

Florence, Italy