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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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156110
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The Risen Christ Adored by Saints and Angels
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156110
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drawing
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The Risen Christ Adored by Saints and Angels
description
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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1566–68
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en
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Q79945090
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11907
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1
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Sheet: 41.9 x 26.5 cm (16 1/2 x 10 7/16 in.)
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Italy, 16th century
accession
1991.43
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Black chalk, pen and brown ink, and extensive white heightening (wash and point of brush), with incising on paper prepared with a brown wash.
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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
collection
DR - Italian
inscriptions
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]
didYouKnow
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.
citations
citation
John Herron Art Institute. <em>Pontormo to Greco, The Age of Mannerism; a Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of the Century 1520-1620. February 14-March 28, 1954</em>. Indianapolis, 1954.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 60 (as Benedetto Caliari)
citation
Monbeig-Goguel, Catherine and Walter Vitzthum, "Dessins Inedits de Giorgio Vasari," <em>Revue de l'Art</em> I/2 (1968): 89-93
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 92-93
citation
University of Notre Dame. <em>The Age of Vasari; A Loan Exhibition Under the High Patronage of His Excellency, Egidio Ortona, the Ambassador of Italy to the United States [at] Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, February 22-March 31, 1970 [and] University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton, April 12-May 10, 1970. </em>Notre Dame, Indiana, 1970.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 888-89, 141, D47
citation
Hall, Marcia B. <em>Renovation and Counter-Reformation: Vasari and Duke Cosimo in Sta Maria Novella and Sta Croce, 1565-1577</em>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 111-113
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Akker, Paul van den.<em> Sporen van vaardigheid: de ontwerpmethode voor de figuurhouding in de Italiaanse tekenkunst van de Renaissance</em>. Abcoude: Uniepers, 1991.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 82-85, fig. 128.
citation
Turner, Evan H., et al.. "Notable Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147. <strong><br></strong>
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 75
citation
Gazette des Beaux Arts, "Principales acquisitions des musées en 1991," <em>Gazette des Beaux Arts </em>119/134 (March 1992).
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 60, no. 201
citation
DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 10, 42-43, 284; reproduced: p. 43
citation
Olszewski, Edward J., Burton L. Dunbar, and Robert Munman. <em>A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings</em>. London: Harvey Miller, 2008.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 479-481, no. 380
citation
Härb, Florian. <em>The Drawings of Giorgio Vasari: (1511-1574)</em>. Roma : Ugo Bozzi, Edizioni per la Storia dell’Arte, 2015.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: no. 356; pp. 537-539, fig. 28.
citation
"After Michelangelo: The Rebirth of a Renaissance Master.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 58. no. 6 (November/December 2018): 28.
page_number
Reproduced: P. 28
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John L. Severance Fund
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156110
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DR - Italian
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Black chalk, pen and brown ink, and extensive white heightening (wash and point of brush), with incising on paper prepared with a brown wash.
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