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| Artist | Attributed to Italian (Ferrarese) School Attributed to Master of the Twelve Apostles (Italian painter, active 1st half of 16th century) |
| Previous attributions | Previously attributed to school of Garofalo, Benvenuto Tisi da (Italian painter, 1481-1559) Previously attributed to Dossi, Battista (Italian painter, ca.1490-1548, active in Ferrara) |
| Title | Noli me tangere |
| Alternative/previous titles | Christ and Mary Magdalene; Christ and Mary Magdalene in the Garden |
| Date earliest | 1500 |
| Date latest | 1599 |
| Material | oil on panel (hardwood {poplar?}) |
| Measurements | 45.7 x 30.8 cm |
| Description | In a garden the risen Christ appears to Mary Magdalene, recognisable in this painting that shows a strong northern influence because of the anointing jar standing between the two figures. When she approaches the resurrected Christ, he tells her 'Noli me tangere' (Do not touch me). This most moving episode in the relationship of the Saviour and his female disciple is situated in this picture outside the walls of a city meant to be Jerusalem that appears, with its towers and buildings, in the landscape background before inhospitable rocky mountains. |
| Subject | figure; religion (Noli me tangere) |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Current accession number | 172 |
| Acquisition details | Bequeathed by Archibald McLellan 1854. |
| Provenance | Milano, Accademia di Brera [?]. |
| Principal publications | The McLellan Gallery: Catalogue of Pictures Bequeathed to the People of Glasgow by the late Archibald McLellan, Glasgow, 1855, 'Centre Room: Italian and German Schools', no. 84, p. 11, as Christ and Mary Magdalene in the Garden, 'School of Ferrara'; Berenson, B., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 173 (attributed to Battista Dossi); Catalogue of Italian Paintings with which is Included a Small Group of Spanish Paintings: Illustrations, Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums, 1970, p. 54 (ill.); Gibbons, F., Dosso and Battista Dossi: Court Painters at Ferrara, Princeton, 1968, cat.no. 156, p. 254, fig. 200, as by an anonymous conservative Ferrarese artist, late sixteenth century, whose style derives from Battista, perhaps of the school of the Filippi; Stanzani, A. and B. Ghelfi (eds), Il Maestro dei dodici Apostoli, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Ferrara, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, 2003, pp. 23-24 (in the list of paintings of the Master of the Twelve Apostles); Bliznukov, A., 'Il Maestro dei dodici Apostoli', Proporzioni (in corso di stampa]. |
| Notes | On the back: old label '120', brown seal ' ... [words obliterated]IA DI MILANO - PER ESPORTAZIONE', brushed on in black ink '6.' and '25.', in white chalk '80'. In older catalogues of the gallery as by Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo (1885, 1888, 1892, 1895, 1898, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1911, 1925, 1935); a similar version, but with a different background, is in the Vittorio Cini collection, Venice, San Vio 732, attributed to 'Battista Dossi?' |
| Rights status | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author | Dr Heiner Krellig |
