In this work the figure corresponds in every way to how ancient writers would describe it. The figure is standing in one of the artistic poses of antiquity; she has ancient proportions but a naturalistic rather than ideal naked body. Between 1501 and 1504, Michelangelo, commissioned by the Superintendents of the Ministry of Works of Florence, created perhaps his most famous sculpture, David, here we clearly see his passion and inspiration for the male nude. The figure stands in a version of the famous Greco-Roman pose called contrapposto; represents the first successful union between ancient inspiration and the Florentine celebration of man. We see a continuation of Michelangelo's fascination with male anatomy in his 1504 figure studies for The Battle of Cascina. In these studies in which he drew the male figure in many poses, he seems to have given freedom to future artists to paint the human body in every possible position. It has been said that the expression of emotions in these drawings planted the seed of mannerism. At the very least these drawings were a preview of the nude male figures that would soon be seen in his Sistine Chapel