Two nude men: one standing, one reclining – Vintage Print
![Two nude men: one standing, one reclining, [between 1500 and 1551] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ae/ae4271fa7235-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique engraving captures Two nude men: one standing, one reclining in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Two nude men: one standing, one reclining
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Few details survive about this sheet, but its record places it as number 47 in an album once assembled by a collector, a reminder that many sixteenth-century prints were kept in bound volumes rather than displayed. The technique is what sets it apart. A chiaroscuro woodcut combines a line block with one or more tone blocks, so the figures seem to emerge from shaded grounds in a way a plain engraving cannot. Printmakers in Germany and Italy developed the method in the early 1500s to imitate drawings washed in ink or wash. The pairing of a standing figure with a reclining one reflects the period's interest in the nude as a study of the human body.
| Created / published | [between 1500 and 1551] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving, chiaroscuro woodcut ; 23.5 cm. x 14.8 cm. |
| Genre | Engravings 1500-1560.Chiaroscuro woodcuts 1500-1560. |
| Notes | Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28. Print originally part of Pembroke album, no. 47. DLC Engraving and one chiaroscuro woodblock. Graphic sampler, pp. 10-28 |
| Subjects | Men--1500-1560. Nudes--1500-1560. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 972 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-124947 |
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