# The Risen Christ [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Black chalk, 325 x 190 mm ## Commentary This study belongs to Michelangelo's compositions of the Resurrection of Christ. Although there are several other assumptions, these drawings were probably studies for a painting in the lunette above the double tomb of the Magnifici at the entrance wall of the Medici Chapel in Florence. In the present study the artist repeatedly changed the posture of the legs, obviously having different solutions in mind. The drawing anticipates the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/3sistina/lastjudg/3lastjud.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/3sistina/lastjudg/3lastjud.html">posture of Christ</a> in the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/michelan/3sistina/lastjudg/index.html'\)" href="/html/m/michelan/3sistina/lastjudg/index.html">Last Judgment</a> in the Sistine Chapel. ## Related artworks - [A Man Lifting a Boar onto his Shoulder \(verso\)]() - [Abraham - Isaac - Jacob - Judah]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)]() - [Achim - Eliud]() - [Aeneas with a Boy \(recto\)]() - [Allegorical figure]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab \(detail\)]() - [Amminadab]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() - [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()