The Risen Christ Adored by Saints and Angels
1566–68
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (Italian, 1511–1574)
Drawings
The Risen Christ Adored by Saints and Angels, 1566–68. Giorgio Vasari (Italian, 1511–1574). Black chalk, pen and brown ink, and extensive white heightening (wash and point of brush), with incising on paper prepared with a brown wash.; sheet: 41.9 x 26.5 cm (16 1/2 x 10 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1991.43 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 modello (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. This highly finished presentation drawing, called a modello, was made by the artist to show to his patron the final plans for a painted altarpiece.
- Maker/Artist
- Vasari, Giorgio
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted 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.
- Medium
- black, chalk, pen, brown, ink, extensive, white, heightening, wash, point, brush, incising, paper, prepared
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 41.9 x 26.5 cm (16 1/2 x 10 7/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: 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]
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1991.43
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- Notable Acquisitions, Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650, Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance, <em>The Age of Vasari</em>. University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, South Bend; State University of New York at Binghampton Art Gallery, Binghampton (February 22-Mary 10, 1970)., <em>Pontormo to Greco: The Age of Mannerism. </em>The John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis (February 14-March 28, 1954), (as Benedetto Caliari).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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