Blanton Museum of Art - Raising of Lazarus

Raising of Lazarus

circa 1595-1600
16th century
132.1 cm x 170.2 cm (52 in. x 67 in.)

Joachim Wtewael and workshop (Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1566 - 1638, Utrecht, The Netherlands) Primary

Object Type: painting

Artist Nationality: Europe, Dutch

Medium and Support: Oil on canvas

Credit Line: Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Museum Fund, 1984

Accession Number: 1984.55

This painting is one of four known copies made in Wtewael’s workshop of his now lost original. It displays all the Mannerist characteristics for which the master was known, including vivid colors, compressed space, and contorted figures disproportionate to their surroundings. Wtewael based this work on Abraham Bloemart’s painting of the same subject, which he likely saw in an engraved reproduction. This kind of artistic borrowing through intermediary prints and subsequent copying of one’s own work helped spread new ideas about style and ideology to a wider audience.

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architectural

religious/mythological

figurative

child

man

woman

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