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| Keywords: Ascribed to Michelangelo - Christ and the woman of Samaria - Google Art Project.jpg 1475 Caprese Italy 1475 1564 18 2 Rome Italy 1564 Michelangelo Male 414269 di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Italian 1475 - 1564 /collection/walker-art-gallery-liverpool/artwork/christ-and-the-woman-of-samaria-ascribed-to-michelangelo/424096/ Ascribed to Michelangelo /artist/michelangelo-buonarroti/4127017/ 4127017 /collection/walker-art-gallery-liverpool/ Walker Art Gallery Liverpool 346008 11/28/2011 4 29 45 PM /collection/walker-art-gallery-liverpool/artwork/christ-and-the-woman-of-samaria-ascribed-to-michelangelo/424096/ 1536 Between 1536 and 1542 Renaissance; Biblical; terribilitià; Michelangelo Buonarroti; Christ; Woman of Samaria; biblical; Samarian; William Roscoe 777 424096 False 1542 Without frame 3/24/2012 1 07 26 AM WAG 2789 http //www liverpoolmuseums org uk/picture-of-month/displaypicture asp venue 2 id 73 Walker Art Gallery National Museums Liverpool Presented by the Liverpool Royal Institution in 1955 Ink on gesso-coated poplar wood panel 1530 1550 w699 x h777 cm Between 1536 and 1542 False 0 755859375 Object christ-and-the-woman-of-samaria-ascribed-to-michelangelo Christ and the woman of Samaria c 699 Previously owned by William Roscoe 1753-1831 Roscoe was a successful Liverpool lawyer and Radical politician who campaigned aginst the slave trade and whose interests included history poetry botany languages and art Remarkably he was on the whole a self-educated man Roscoe thought Michelangelo had created this image for his close friend the devout poetess Vittoria Colonna 1490-1547 If not the original it is certainly a close copy of a now lost design which Michelangelo is known to have created for Colonna Roscoe admired both the poet �s and the painter �s work He also owned about 27 drawings attributed to Michelangelo Roscoe �s admiration for Michelangelo was encouraged by his friendship with the radical Anglo-Swiss painter Henry Fuseli 1741-1825 Fuseli often stayed at Roscoe �s house in Liverpool They both shared an appreciation of Michelangelo and held anti-slavery views It was Fuseli who identified the subject of the painting To find out more about Roscoe please follow this link http //www liverpoolmuseums org uk/online/collectors/williamroscoe asp tag_/_style Renaissance; Biblical; terribilitià; Michelangelo Buonarroti; Christ; Woman of Samaria; biblical; Samarian; William Roscoe special url_id twF1zwxlh7Ow-w PD-old-100-1923 1564 Google Art Project works by Michelangelo Buonarroti attributed Samaritan woman at the well Drawings by Michelangelo Buonarroti | ||||
