The Resurrection
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk
Dimensions
16 5/8 x 12 3/4in. (42.2 x 32.4cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887
Accession Number
87.12.34
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Art Historical Context
Created around 1600 by the Roman artist Giuseppe Cesari, known as Cavaliere d’Arpino, this dynamic drawing captures the triumphant moment of Christ’s Resurrection. Cesari, a leading painter in papal Rome, worked in a late Mannerist style that blended elegant, elongated figures with a growing sense of drama soon embraced by Baroque artists. The scene likely shows the risen Christ hovering above awestruck soldiers or witnesses, a subject that resonated deeply in Counter-Reformation Rome as a symbol of faith and renewal. Executed in pen and brown ink with brush-applied wash and white highlights ...