Editing I Modi (section)

=== Drawings - Fossombrone Sketchbook - Workshop of Raphael ===

In the Fossombrone sketchbook, which is from the workshop of Raphael,<ref name=2013Turner2nd>{{cite journal |author=James Grantham Turner |date=February 2013 |title=Invention and Sexuality in the Raphael Workshop: Before the Modi |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264506338 |journal=Art History 
|volume=36 
|issue=1 
|pages=72–99 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8365.2012.00942.x 
|access-date=24 June 2024}}</ref> there are two drawings that show sex between two people.<ref name=2013Turnerp72/><ref name="June 2009 page 121">{{Cite journal
|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43826068
|author=James Grantham Turner
|date= June 2009
|title=Woodcut Copics of the "Modi"
|journal=Print Quarterly
|volume=26
|issue=2
|pages=121–122
|jstor=43826068
|access-date=2 August 2023
}}</ref>

One idea is that these two drawings are based on "I modi" engravings.<ref name=2013Turnerp72/><ref name="June 2009 page 121"/> Image 16 from the woodcut booklet has some similarities to both of these drawings.<ref name=2013Turnerp72/><ref name="June 2009 page 121"/>

Another idea that has been speculated is that they show "...independant permutations and variations on sexual motifs perhaps from an antique source, perhaps invented in Raphael's studio."<ref name=2013Turnerp72>{{cite journal |author=James Grantham Turner |date=February 2013 |title=Invention and Sexuality in the Raphael Workshop: Before the Modi |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264506338 |journal=Art History |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=72–99|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8365.2012.00942.x |access-date=24 June 2024}}</ref> Further that "...these drawings while fascinatingly similar to the Modi, differ even more significantly from anything in the visual remains of those prints, as well as from each other in composition and perhaps graphic style."<ref name=2013Turnerp72/>

It was further commented that these two drawings "...allow the Modi to be understood as emerging from a collective enterprise, rather than as unique orignary models."<ref name=2013Turnerp72/> and that "...these erotic scenes [can be seen] as pure fantasia, products of heated imagination."<ref name=2013Turnerp72/>

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File:Drawing - sexual scene - Fossombrone sketchbook - Studio of Raphael - 2.jpg|Sex between a female and a male on a kline. Drawing. From the Fossombrone sketchbook.
File:Drawing - sexual scene - Fossombrone sketchbook - Studio of Raphael - 4.jpg|<small>A second different drawing from the Fossombrone sketchbook. This drawing also shows sex between a female and a male.</small>
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