Art columnist Nadia Hsu PO ’27 looks at a portrait drawing by Amedeo Modigliani on view at the Benton, and discusses how portraiture can and can’t represent a person.
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Ways of Seeing: Anatomical Drawing and Peeling Back the Skin
“Muscles and Bones of the Leg,” is a Renaissance-era anatomical drawing on view as part of the Benton Museum’s “500 Years of Italian Drawings” exhibition. Art columnist Nadia Hsu PO ‘27 writes about seeing anatomical drawing as self-investigation.