Raffael - zugeschrieben - Romano - zugeschrieben - Pluto, KdZ 18152

This drawing portrays a powerful nude figure with thick, curly hair, gazing downward with his right arm folded across his chest. Executed in sanguine (red chalk), the artist focuses on the play of light and shadow across the back and shoulders to define anatomical volume. The figure captures the deity in a moment of rest or deliberation, characteristic of the High Renaissance style of Raphael and his circle.

Pluto represents the chthonic mysteries and the governance of the material or subterranean realms in the Renaissance conceptualization of the cosmos. This specific figure is part of the 'Cupid and Psyche' narrative cycle, which was interpreted by Neoplatonists as a profound allegory for the soul's descent into the world and its eventual return to the divine.