Profile Head of a Youth and a Pyramid in Perspective
A softly shaded profile head above a wire-frame pyramid built up within a box drawn in perspective.
The editors note the sheet bears no text ('Privo di scritti'), yet it carries two drawings. In the upper left is a delicately shaded profile head of a young man, and below it a large geometric construction: a tall pyramid built up with many converging lines within a transparent box drawn in perspective. A few words of faint reddish ink beside the head remain untranscribed.
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Profile head of a young man
In the upper left a youthful male head is drawn in profile facing left, softly modelled in charcoal or metalpoint with curling hair. It is the only figural element on the sheet, set against the geometric construction below.
A pyramid projected within a box in perspective
The lower two-thirds of the sheet are given to a perspective construction: a tall pyramid rising from a rectangular base drawn as a transparent box, with lines drawn to and from its apex and corners. The exercise reads as a study in the perspective projection of a solid.
Wire-frame pyramid and its converging edges
The solid is shown as an open wire-frame, its edges and internal lines converging on the apex and crossing within the base. The construction treats the pyramid as a three-dimensional figure whose faces are laid out geometrically.