Noli me tangere (Andrea del Sarto)

Noli me tangere is an oil-on-canvas painting by Andrea del Sarto, executed c. 1510, depicting Jesus and Mary Magdalene soon after the resurrection.

Art historians consider the work a product of the artist's youthful phase, when he was strongly influenced by the "school of San Marco" of Fra Bartolomeo and Mariotto Albertinelli.

The scene is set in a walled garden, perhaps monastic, depicted with loving care: regular hedges bordered by a trellis and espaliers of fruit shrubs make up the plant elements.

The iconography and the traditional setting, with the horizon line near the center, and the soft and nuanced drawing, derived from the example of Piero di Cosimo, the artist's first master.

The monumentality of the figures instead derives from the example of the colleagues active in the convent of San Marco and marks a clear departure from the fifteenth-century modes of the Florentine repertoire.