1567
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
The Risen Christ Adored by Saints and Angels is a 1567 by Giorgio Vasari, a Renaissance work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a muscular Christ floating above saints and angels, all packed into a tight, glowing cloud. Vasari made this as a *modello*—a polished drawing to show a church before painting the real altarpiece. He copied Michelangelo’s Christ from the *Last Judgment*, but flipped the pose. The saints below look up in awe, but their faces are softer, less dramatic. If you like this, check out the *subject: italy, 16th century* for more altarpieces like it.
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.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer known for his work Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, considered…
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