Ecole italienne du XIX° siècle, suiveur de Marcello Venusti

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Ecole italienne du XIX° siècle, suiveur de Marcello Venusti
Cristo vivo Panel, one board, not parquet flooring 41 x 33cm According to a drawing by Michelangelo kept in the British Museum. Our painting can be compared to a work of the same subject with variants, kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux. Marcello Venusti in 1548 had reproduced Michelangelo's Last Judgment on a reduced scale at the request of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. Given the success of this reproduction, Michel-Angel hired Venusti in his workshops. Ferrante d'Avalos, second Marquis del Vasto, had had the fortune to marry Duchess Vittoria Colonna, born in Rome in 1492 and related to Montefeltre, Gonzague, Este and della Rovere. Vittoria was an intimate friend of Michelangelo in the evening of his life. It appears from two of his letters of 1540 that Michelangelo painted a Crucifix for her. We publish here a period replica, oil painting on wood, of this small missing painting. It is the painting of a Christ on the cross, with his eyes wide open, called "Cristo vivo", as opposed to "Cristo morto" with his eyes closed. Christ puts his soul into the hands of his Father: "In manus tuas domine commendo spiritum meum"
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