Cristo della Minerva [SEP] material used
Risen Christ (Michelangelo, Santa Maria sopra Minerva)
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.
The work was commissioned in June 1514, by the Roman patrician Metello Vari, who stipulated only that the nude standing figure
enjoyed the tours he gave of the collection at his Wyndham Place house. He provided background stories about his collection, given with "the measured cadences of Edward Gibbon with the humorous sparkle of Horace Walpole" as he took visitors through rooms that held collection items.
The Brinsley Ford estate sold a drawing of what became Michelangelo's "Cristo della Minerva" statue, through Christie's, to a German art dealer for $12,378,500. The drawing, purchased by Ford in 1936, was used as inspiration for the statue located