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A portion of Michelangelo's Last Judgement: Souls being raised to Heaven 1550 - 1600
Pen and ink over black chalk and some red chalk, with grey wash, on the reverse of an engraving | 40.5 x 40.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 916727
After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475-Rome 1564)
A portion of Michelangelo's Last Judgement: Souls being raised to Heaven 1550 - 1600
After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475-Rome 1564)
A portion of Michelangelo's Last Judgement: Souls being raised to Heaven 1550 - 1600
After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese 1475-Rome 1564)
A portion of Michelangelo's Last Judgement: Souls being raised to Heaven 1550 - 1600
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A drawing of the lower-centre-left portion of Michelangelo's Last Judgement, traced through onto the reverse of section H of Giorgio Ghisi's engraving of the whole mural (mid-1540s; Bartsch 25, second state; see an impression of the whole at RCIN 831226), with the drawn figures seen as if from the other side of the wall.
The drawing is one of ten such imaginatively altered tracings (RCINs 916722-31) from portions of Ghisi's engraving. See 916722 for a fuller discussion.
Provenance
Listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800, p. 46, ‘Mich: Angelo Buonaroti’, Vol. 2, ‘25. to 35. Are singular Drawings by some Able Master, on the Backs of the several parts of the large Print from the last Judgement, the figures appear revers'd.’
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink over black chalk and some red chalk, with grey wash, on the reverse of an engraving
Measurements
40.5 x 40.5 cm (sheet of paper)
Other number(s)
RL 16727
