formerly attributed to - Recto Apollo

This drawing shows Apollo in a classical contrapposto pose, resting his left hand on a tall, ornate lyre while his right arm is raised behind his head. The figure features delicate cross-hatching to define his musculature and long, flowing hair, with a heavy cloth draped around his lower body. It is a refined study of anatomy and classical proportion typical of the High Renaissance style.

Apollo represents the solar logos and cosmic harmony, central concepts in the Renaissance Neoplatonism of Marsilio Ficino and the Florentine Academy. The presence of the lyre links the figure to the Pythagorean 'music of the spheres' and the idea of the universe as a mathematically ordered, harmonic whole.