Study for a Standing Young Man, Raising a Curtain and Looking at Left. Artist: Baccio Bandinelli (Italian, Gaiole in Chianti 1493-1560 Florence). Dimensions: 15 x 10-5/16 in. (38.1 x 26.2 cm). Date: 1518-19.This large-scale life study was drawn from a male assistant ('garzone') posing in the artist's workshop, in order to design the female attendant figure holding the curtain on the right in Bandinelli's marble relief of the 'Birth of the Virgin' (Shrine of Santa Casa, Loreto), from 1518-1519. The sheet is typical of Bandinelli's early drawings in red chalk, which he worked up with a variety of mark, from sharp outlines to broad areas of soft modelling, in a manner that is reminiscent of the draughtsmanship of Andrea del Sarto (Italian, 1486-1530). Another life study in red chalk for the same figure, and based on the same workshop assistant, is in the British Museum, London (inv. 1885,0593.5). The British Museum study portrays the figure in less detail and with his head turned in a thr