Resurrection, from Passion of Christ
1575/1600
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 16.3 × 11.3 cm (6 7/16 × 4 1/2 in.); Sheet: 17.4 × 12.5 cm (6 7/8 × 4 15/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
93104
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
In a final glorious salvo against death, Christ appears out of a brilliant cloud above his tomb, surrounded by angels and stupefying the Roman soldiers below, who scatter while shielding their eyes from the celestial glow. Reinforcing the gravity of the moment are the small skull and snake-encircled globe on Christ’s sarcophagus lid, once symbolizing wickedness and death, which now represent the vanquished enemies of humanity.
About the Artist
Jan Sadeler, I · 1550–1600
Jan Sadeler I (1550–1600) was born in Brussels and became the most prominent member of the largest and most successful dynasty of Flemish printmakers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Sadeler family — which included Jan's brothers Aegidius and Raphael — produced an extraordinary volume of engravings that circulated across Catholic Europe, disseminating images of religious subjects, p...