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Copy after Michelangelo’s fresco of the ‘Prophet Ezekiel’ on the Sistine Chapel vault (Sistine Chapel, Rome, about 1511)

Cesari Mariannecci

1867

watercolor

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

Impressionism Realism Late 19th Century

Dominant colour

Copy after Michelangelo’s fresco of the ‘Prophet Ezekiel’ on the Sistine Chapel vault (Sistine Chapel, Rome, about 1511) is a 1867 watercolor by Cesari Mariannecci, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?: Cesari Mariannecci
When & what style?: 1867 · Impressionism
Where can I see it?: Victoria and Albert Museum

About this work

Cesari Mariannecci made this watercolor in 1867. It copies Michelangelo’s 1511 Sistine Chapel fresco of the Prophet Ezekiel. The Arundel Society hired him to do the work. This wasn’t just a sketch. They turned his watercolor into a printed picture in 1871. Later, the sheet moved from the National Gallery to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1993. Want to see more copies like this? Look up Cesari Mariannecci.

The story of this work

Overview

A watercolour on paperboard by Cesare Mariannecci from 1867, this work reproduces Michelangelo’s fresco of the Prophet Ezekiel from the Sistine Chapel vault. The composition follows the curved space between the chapel’s ribbed ceiling, depicting Ezekiel as an elderly figure in a red robe, light-blue turban, and mauve scarf, seated on a marble throne with putti. He turns energetically to the right, holding a scroll in his left hand while gesturing toward the viewer with his right, and looks over his shoulder at a youth pointing to the frescoes above. Signed “C. Mariannecci fece. Roma.1867” in…

Read the full account in the museum source.