Here we haver a study of a seated youth. His body is idealised in the fashion of the high Renaissance, when artist revived the Greek interest in the ultimate perfection of the human form. This was in part a rejection of the Christian view of the body, as a battleground of temptation and sin; an earth-bound object belonging to a fallen realm. Au contraire, the Renaissance celebrated bodies as powerful, vital, and beautiful objects of contemplation; mirrors to the perfection of Nature.