Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011021The Risen Christ Adored by Saints and Angels
About the Artwork
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.
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]
Provenance
?-?: Ludovico Moscardo, Verona (1611-1681) Teresa Moscardo (1747-?), Verona, by descent -1957: Count Mario Miniscalchi-Erizzo (1881-1957), Verona, by descent ca. 1957: with Francis Matthiesen (1897-1963), London ca. 1957: with Mario Uzielli (1888-1973), Liestal, sold to Janos Scholz 1949-1961: Janos Scholz (1903-1993), New York 1961: Savoy Art & Auction Galleries, New York, Anonymous Sale, 25 February, 1961 ca. 1961-1990: Norbert L. H. Roesler, New York 1990: His sale, Christie's New York, 31 May 1990, lot 3 (ill) 1991: With Colnaghi, London, 1991 1991-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Notable Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991). Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991). Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giorgio Vasari (Italian, 1511–1574)
- Date
- 1566–68
- 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.
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 41.9 x 26.5 cm (16 1/2 x 10 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1991.43
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