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The Resurrection
Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Dutch, 1598–1657)
c. 1635
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 35.5 × 20.7 cm (14 × 8 1/8 in.); Framed: 50.8 × 36.4 × 6.4 cm (20 × 14 3/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Holland
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Louise B. and Frank H. Woods Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
As Jesus rises in triumphant Resurrection, the Roman soldier guarding the tomb at the lower right, seems, at first glance, to respond in awestruck ecstasy. He and his fellow guards, however, remain deeply asleep, ignorant to the divine event.
The soldier’s discarded helmet was inspired by a wellknown design by 16th-century Italian armorer Filippo Negroli; it can also be seen in paintings by artists like Bartholomeus Breenbergh’s teacher, Pieter Lastman. Many artists appreciated such pieces of Negroli armor for their fantastical, animalistic designs that reference classical ornament, and often collected them as studio props for use in history scenes.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
