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Find the man perched in the tree at upper left and the figures in the tree at right, then look down at Lazarus being lifted from the dark mouth of the tomb.
The Art Institute of Chicago dates this engraving to about 1507 and Lucas van Leyden’s birth to about 1494, so he made it at around thirteen; the National Gallery notes that the biographer Karel van Mander called him precocious. Thin and half-dressed, Lazarus is helped up out of the tomb while Christ, at the center, looks upward.
Engraving in black on cream laid paper · Image: 28 × 20 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Northern Renaissance
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- Museum title
- The Raising of Lazarus
- Artist
- Lucas van Leyden Netherlandish, c. 1494-1533
- Date
- c. 1507
- Medium
- Engraving in black on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 28 × 20 cm (11 1/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 28.3 × 20.3 cm (11 3/16 × 8 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.