Life drawing is making a pictorial study of the living model, a practice found from the early 15th century in artists’ studios and institutionalized more than a century later at academies of arts. The Italian term accademia seems first to have become aligned with the discipline of life drawing in the late 16th century [11. 85]. Accompanying the written sources, which deal primarily with the study of male models (e.g. Giorgio Vasari, Filippo Baldinucci, Giovanni Battista Passeri), is …