Lower Half of Skeleton from the Front
1544
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1544
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
This painting shows a skeleton’s lower half from the front. Bones look real—pelvis, femur, ribs—drawn in careful lines. The artist even marks tiny holes where muscles once attached. This isn’t just a medical chart. It mixes science and art, a trick artists used to study the body. Battista Franco likely drew it to help others learn anatomy without a full corpse. See more like this at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
