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The Risen Christ Adored by Saints and Angels
Giorgio Vasari1566–68
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Florentine artist and author Giorgio Vasari venerated Michelangelo as the premier example of artistic genius and emulated the master in much of his work. He made this <em>modello</em> (a finished drawing for presentation to a patron) in preparation for a church altarpiece in Florence. It shows a finely muscled Christ appearing within a host of angels above a group of saints. Vasari’s Christ imitates the pose and body type of Michelangelo’s Christ in the Last Judgment fresco; he altered the pose, while suggesting his knowledge of the earlier composition.
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- Title: The Risen Christ Adored by Saints and Angels
- Creator: Giorgio Vasari (Italian, 1511–1574)
- Date Created: 1566–68
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 41.9 x 26.5 cm (16 1/2 x 10 7/16 in.)
- Provenance: Ludovico Moscardo, Verona (1611-1681), by descent to Teresa Moscardo, Teresa Moscardo [1747-?], Verona, by descent to last Moscardo heir, Count Mario Miniscalchi-Bruzzi, Count Mario Miniscalchi-Brizzo [1881-1957], Verona, sold to private collection, Luigi Grassi [1858-1937], Florence, Dukes of Savoia-Aosta, Brianza, until 1952 (probably Emanuele Filiberto and by descent to his son Amadeo), Janos Scholz, New York, Savoy's, New York, Anonymous Sale, 25 February, 1961, Norbert L. H. Roesler, New York; his sale, Christie's New York, 31 May 1990, lot 8 (ill), With Colnaghi, London and New York, 1991, no. 5 (ill), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.43
- Medium: Black chalk, pen and brown ink, and extensive white heightening (wash and point of brush), with incising on paper prepared with a brown wash.
- Inscriptions: by artist, lower center, in black chalk: [victime] pas[chali]; verso of secondary support, upper right, in brown ink: [illegible] 274; center left, in brown ink: [5?] [illegible]
- Fun Fact: This highly finished presentation drawing, called a <em>modello</em>, was made by the artist to show to his patron the final plans for a painted altarpiece.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: Italy, 16th century
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: DR - Italian
- Accession Number: 1991.43
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