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Christ in the House of Simon the Pharisee
Also titled Maaltijd ten huize van Simon de Leviet
Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511–1574)
1544
- Medium
- paper, ink, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 556 mm x width 414 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the Schaffhausen Council
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This detailed drawing on blue paper is a study for a mural in a refectory, the dining room of a monastery. Many of its figures are derived from Vasari’s own compositions or those of his contemporaries. They entirely fill the small loggia with its fantastical twisted columns. This horror-vacui, or fear of empty space, was a typical feature of Mannerism, the art movement to which Vasari belonged.
