The Cristo della Minerva, also known as Christ the Redeemer or Christ Carrying the Cross, is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, finished in 1521. The work is in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, in Rome, to the left of the main altar.
The work was commissioned in June 1514, by the Roman patrician Metello Vari, who...
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Also known as:
- Christ Carrying the Cross,
- Christ the Redeemer