Cleveland Museum of Art
The Risen Christ Appearing to the Virgin
Francesco SolimenaLinkedCulture matchlcp-96c8aeeb9a23
- Date
- c. 1708
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- Italy, 18th century
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 146167
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The dramatic contrasts of light and dark reveal the long aftereffects of Caravaggio in Naples. Yet, the elegant forms, rich colors, and perfected body of Christ have far more affinities with the idealizing strand of Italian art in the 1600s and 1700s. Solimena sought to improve on nature, based on the study of antiquity, aiming to create a work of grandeur and nobility meant to inspire reverence and devotion appropriate to the holy subject.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Provenance
- 1970: Purchased by the Heim Gallery from an unidentified church in France. | 1971: Purchased by the Cleveland Museum of Art from the Heim Gallery.
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