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Attributed to Hugo van der Goes, The Crucifixion, late 1470s, brush and brown pigment, heightened with white, on grey-brown-violet grounded paper, Windsor, Royal Collection.
Albrecht Dürer, Study of a Naked Woman, 1493, pen and ink, Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu.
Jean Bourdichon, Bathsheba Bathing, 1498/99, tempera colours and gold paint on vellum, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS 79.
Albrecht Dürer, Nude Self-Portrait, ca. 1509, pen and brush,black ink with white lead on green prepared paper, Weimar, Klassik Stiftung Weimar.
Dürer’s apparently-naturalistic study of his own body here is remarkable in the context of his other nude drawings from the same period which depict ideal bodies influenced by classical sculpture.
Hans Baldung Grien, Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, ca. 1510-15, pen and brown ink, heightened with white lead pigment, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.
Albrecht Dürer, Male Nude, ca. 1513, pen and brown ink, traces of preliminary drawing in black chalk, Vienna, Albertina.
In about 1512, Dürer decided to write a scientific treatise on human proportion which interested him for many years. This drawing, which served as the model for an illustration, is based on ideal proportions as defined by Vitruvius.