The Risen Christ

Ca. 1550.
Not on display

The Risen Christ reveals Giulio Clovio’s exceptional technical skills as an illuminator and miniaturist. Trained with Giulio Romano and one of the leading Renaissance artists in those fields, Clovio here makes use of Michelangelo’s model of The Risen Christ for the Roman church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, adding a loincloth and an architectural setting. Clovio’s works were collected by Philip II and by high-ranking members of the Spanish nobility, while also inspiring the artists working in the miniatures studio at El Escorial.

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Inventory number: O003714
Author: Giulio Clovio
Title: The Risen Christ
Date: Ca. 1550
Technique: Wash; Gilded
Support: Vellum
Dimension: Height: 19 cm; Width: 13.5 cm
Provenance: Collection of the Scorza Family, Counts of Soto Ameno, Alicante; donated by Pilar Conde Gutiérrez del Álamo to American Friends of Museo del Prado and deposited in the Museo del Prado, 2019; definitive in the Museo del Prado, 2024.
Entry date: 2024

Bibliography +

Benito Domenech, Fernando, En torno a Julio Clovio y España, Archivo Español de Arte, 1988, pp. 307-312.

Calvillo, Elena, Authoritative copies and divine originals: Lucretian metaphor, painting on stsone and the problem of originality in Michelangelo's Rome, Renaissance quarterly, 66, 2013, pp. 453-508.

Pancorbo, A, 'Giulio Clovio. Cristo resucitado', Cuarenta años de amistad. Donaciones de la Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado., Museo Nacional del Prado. Fundación Amigos del Museo del Prado., Madrid, 2021, pp. 114 nº 35.

González Mozo, Ana, 'George Julius Clovio. Cristo resucitado,', Museo Nacional del Prado. Memoria de actividades 2024, Madrid, 2025, pp. 160-162.

Other inventories +

Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 3145.

Update date: 03-06-2026 | Registry created on 22-01-2025

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