Raising of Lazarus
early 1660s
Medium
Pen and iron-gall ink, with red chalk, brush and iron-gall ink wash and traces of black and brown chalk, on grayish ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
42.4 × 28 cm (16 3/4 × 11 1/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
202240
About the Artist
Salvator Rosa · 1615–1673
Salvator Rosa was born in 1615 in Arenella, on the outskirts of Naples, into a world of artistic ambition and turbulent talent. His early training came through his maternal uncle, the painter Paolo Greco, and his brother-in-law Francesco Fracanzano, himself a pupil of the great Spanish-born Neapolitan master Jusepe de Ribera. Rosa showed a fierce independence from the start, resisting his father's...