The Climbers (Three Figures from Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina)

Marcantonio Raimondi

Cleveland Museum of Art

Black and white engraving of three muscular, nude men in a landscape. One man in the center sits atop a stone wall and gestures with his right arm. He has short curly hair and a beard. He wears a cloth wrapped around his waist. The man on the left stands on the stone wall and faces right. He bends at the waist with his right leg straight and his left knee bent. He looks down. The man on the right leans over the edge of the stone wall, toward the foreground. He faces left and looks down. He has short hair and a mustache. A tree to the left frames the men on the left side. A roof of a structure is on the right. A distant landscape appears in the background.