Raising of Lazarus

Salvator Rosa

early 1660s

Raising of Lazarus by Salvator Rosa

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 · 16151673

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...

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