The Resurrection of Christ
ca. 1700–40
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 18 5/16 × 12 11/16 in. (46.5 × 32.3 cm) Sheet: 18 1/2 in. × 13 in. (47 × 33 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Van Day Truex Fund, The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Jefferson R. Burdick Bequest, and Charles Z. Offin Fund, 2017
Accession Number
2017.118
Tags
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints collection, where *The Resurrection of Christ*, an etching attributed to Giuseppe Maria Crespi Lodovico Matti (ca. 1700–40), captures a pivotal moment in Christian iconography. Crespi, a prominent Bolognese Baroque artist, was renowned for his dynamic religious compositions blending emotional intensity with everyday realism, influenced by the dramatic lighting and movement of Caravaggio. This print likely reproduces one of his paintings, with Mattioli executing the etching—a technique that allowed for intricate, fluid lines to con...
About the Artist
Giuseppe Maria Crespi|Lodovico Mattioli · 1665–1747
Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665–1747) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period whose innovative genre scenes and unorthodox approach to religious painting made him one of the most original artists of early eighteenth-century Bologna. Born in Bologna, he trained under Domenico Maria Canuti, Carlo Cignani, and in the tradition of the Carracci academy, but developed a markedly personal style tha...