The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum

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CATALOGUE 41 WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY AUTOGRAPH SHEETS 211

sketches related to the present sheet and to W 61 /Corpus

352 .These are as follows:

1 .Asketch of crossed arms for an angel, an arrangement

developed further at the lower right of W 61 /Corpus 352 ,

butnot used in the fresco.

2 .Araised right arm and forward-projecting forearm

with the hand facing forward, perhaps planned for the

figure shown on the verso of W 61 .Another drawing in

London (BM W 80 /Corpus 397 ;black chalk, 113 ×15 6

mm), dated by Wilde to the155 0sand connected with

one of theAnnunciationsdesigned by Michelangelo for

Marcello Venusti, is probably a detailed study for this ges-

ture, made for one of the angels in theLast Judgement.

3 .Araised left arm, similar to the larger study on the

recto of the present sheet, in reverse, which was probably

also made in view of one of the angels.

If the compiler’s interpretation of the lower drawing on

the verso is correct, it shows a left arm bent across the chest

at a rising angle, with the hand raised as though warding

off a rebuke: The similarity with the left arm of Adam in