Noli me tangere
Bramantino, 1498
Noli me tangere is a fragment of a fresco from around 1498–1500 by Bramantino, a painter and architect of the Italian Renaissance. It shows Jesus and Mary Magdalene shortly after the resurrection, at the moment he asks her not to touch him. The work was originally in the church of Santa Maria del Giardino in Milan and has been in the Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco in the same city since 1867, when it was given by Prospero Moisè Loria. It is one of the painter's earliest surviving works and shows the strong influence of Bramante, especially his 1497 frescoes of armed men for the Casa Visconti-Panigarola. Around the same time, Santa Maria del Giardino underwent a major redecoration led by Vincenzo Foppa. The swollen, wrinkled drapery, the simplified volumes of the figures and a cold, metallic light point to a date in the 1490s, close to other works by the same artist such as Philemon and Baucis, The Adoration of the Kings and a Pietà.
- Painter
- Bramantino
- Date
- 1498
- Dimensions
- 214 × 104 cm
- Museum
- Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Milan
- Genre
- religious art
- Depicts
- waist-length hair, Jesus Christ, woman, Mary Magdalene, man
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