Raffaello - Stehender Männerakt, 117v

This sketch depicts a muscular man standing in a contrapposto pose with his left hand resting on his hip. The artist uses fine, overlapping lines to define the anatomical structure of the torso, limbs, and facial features. Vertical blue-black lines frame the central figure on the weathered paper, which also shows faint traces of a second figure to the right.

Anatomical studies of this type were fundamental to the Renaissance project of humanism, where the human body was viewed as a microcosm of universal order and divine proportion. Such drawings provided the technical foundation for Raphael's later Neoplatonic masterworks, such as the School of Athens.