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The Crucifixion for Vittoria Colonna. There’s a work by Michelangelo nobody has ever seen, but it was replicated and reinterpreted by numerous artists, who used it as a model for all the representations of the Crucifixion in which Christ is painted as the one who was capable of winning the death.
Michelangelo was the first who depicted the Crucified Christ alive, with his head upward, open eyes and in the attempt to lift from the cross. His painting was in contrast with the traditional representation of Christ suffering, with his head bent downwards otherwise in a regal and collected posture.
The British Museum in London holds a drawing of this work, considered the lost masterpiece by Michelangelo Buonarroti, or the masterpiece he never painted. It belonged to the Roman noblewoman Vittoria Colonna, and it is considered the drawing the Florentine artist himself painted and donated to the woman.
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