# Christ in the House of Simon the Pharisee

- By: Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511–1574)
- Date: 1544
- Medium: paper, ink, chalk
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 556 mm x width 414 mm
- Credit line: Gift of the Schaffhausen Council
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1951-1--ee69b1a337740811f5c7c2bf5c7853fc)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/c1c910ebbf79c596a50127fa8fa6e33d.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.