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The Risen Christ, Cristo della Minerva in Italian, also known as Christ the Redeemer or Christ Carrying the Cross, is a marble sculpture by the Italy High Renaissance master Michelangelo, finished in 1521. It is in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, to the left of the main altar.
Giulio Clovio (1498-1578) produced many sensitively drawn copies of Michelangelo`s drawings, witness his Crucifixion drawing in the BM (1860-06-16-19) in which he grafts the top half of a slumped Christ on the Cross (known through Clovio`s copy in the Louvre [Joannides 88] and numerous engravings) with the dynamic curving legs of Christ seen in ...
Michelangelo made a contract in June 1514 A.D. that he would make a sculpture of a standing, naked figure of Christ holding a cross, and that the sculpture would be completed within four years of the contract.
Title: Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and Saint John (recto); A Leg (verso) Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome) Date: 1550–55
Michelangelo has played particular attention to the plausible construction of the cross: the end of the upright projects immediately above Christ's obliterated head (the first-drawn lines can be seen continuing above), while the cross bar which supports the ends of the Y and carries the Inscription, is seen perspective from below: the viewer is ...
It must be confessed straight away that Michelangelo’s ‘Risen Christ’ is a somewhat problematic work of art. It was commissioned in 1514 by three gentlemen, who required only that it should be life-sized, nude, and bearing a cross.
Christ on the Cross is amongst the most iconic image to be found in western art and Michelangelo would use it as inspiration for his work on many occasions. Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and St John is one of his most detailed drawings on this topic.
