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A work made of tempera on panel, transferred to canvas.

Noli Me Tangere

1500–05

Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci; Italian, 1445/46-1523)

Italy

These four panels, together with another one depicting the Resurrection (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), once constituted a predella—a series of small pictures, often narrative scenes, forming the base of an altarpiece. These predella scenes depict moments when Jesus’s divine nature was revealed: at his birth, at his baptism, during his conversation at a well with a Samarian woman, at his res-urrection, and through his appearance to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection. The painting that once surmounted the predella as the focal point of the altarpiece has not been identified.

Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas

Painting and Sculpture of Europe