Art Institute of Chicago
The Vision of Ezekiel
Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, 1520–1582)LinkedCulture matchlcp-694b45a9280b
- Date
- 1554
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 86973
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This seemingly macabre print haunted by symbols of death—skeletons, tombs, and decaying corpses—actually refers to the Christian belief in resurrection and eternal life. In the Bible’s Old Testament, the prophet Ezekiel describes being transported in a vision to a valley full of dry bones, where he receives a revelation from God that the dead shall come back to life. God’s words are inscribed in the banderole held aloft by the winged cherubs. Giorgio Ghisi based this ambitiously large print on a design by his friend Giovanni Battista Bertani, court artist to the Dukes of Mantua in Italy.
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- Charles Greene Fund and Joseph Brooks Fair Fund
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- AAT300041273
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