Drawings and studies by Michelangelo in the University Galleries, Oxford
A late nineteenth-century London publication of reproductions of Michelangelo drawings held at the University Galleries, Oxford, engraved by Joseph Fisher in 1879 for art students and scholars. Its plates show studies of the male nude, with figures seen from several angles, limbs stretched or twisted, and muscles built up in layered strokes; a designer might take from them the way anatomy is simplified into contour and shadow for figure drawing.
