Plautilla Nelli, Partial study of Michelangelo’s risen Christ, XVI century
Nelli looks to Michelangelo
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Anatomy, a daring endeavour for a Renaissance convent artist. Restored in 2007, by AWA founder Jane Fortune, Nelli’s drawing after Michelangelo’s Risen Chirst, is stored at the Uffizi’s Prints and Drawings Department. Michelangelo’s sculpture, located in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome is a standing nude, representing the Resurrection and its transformation of the perfected physical body, Whilst Nelli’s drawing captures only the upper body, this partial attempt at anatomical study – for which Michelangelo was famous – would have been a daring endeavour for a woman artist and nun in Renaissance Florence. Michelangelo’s Risen Christ, was finished, after much delay, two years after Nelli’s birth. She most likely saw it solely as a sketch.