“The Raising of Lazarus”

Artwork: The Raising of Lazarus

Artist: Sebastiano del Piombo

Created: c. 1517-1519

Medium: Oil on wood , transferred to canvas

Period: Mannerism

Dimensions: 381 x 299 cm

Photography credit @constance_lillyanne_essco

The Raising of Lazarus is a large altarpiece of 1517-1519 by the Italian High Renaissance artist Sebastiano del Piombo (b. c. 1485-d. 1547), for which Michelangelo (b. 1475-d. 1564) supplied drawings for some figures. Intended for Narbonne Cathedral in France, is now normally in room 18 of the National Gallery in London where it is “NG1”, the first painting catalogued at the founding of the gallery in 1824.(Wikipedia)

The raising of Lazarus is a miracle of Jesus recounted only in the Gospel of John (John 11:1-44) in the New Testament in which Jesus raises Lazarus of Bethany from the death four days after his entombment. In John, this is the last of the miracles that Jesus performers before the Passion and his own resurrection.(Wikipedia)

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