# Noli Me Tangere

- By: Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci; Italian, 1445/46-1523)
- Date: 1500–05
- Medium: Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 27.3 × 46.3 cm (10 3/4 × 18 1/4 in.)
- Culture: Italy
- Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/16207)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/6a125563-8405-85c1-42a7-8a6818a442d0/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

These four panels, together with another one depicting the Resurrection (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), once constituted a predella—a series of small pictures, often narrative scenes, forming the base of an altarpiece. These predella scenes depict moments when Jesus’s divine nature was revealed: at his birth, at his baptism, during his conversation at a well with a Samarian woman, at his res-urrection, and through his appearance to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection. The painting that once surmounted the predella as the focal point of the altarpiece has not been identified.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0