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CARAVAGGIO: The Raising of Lazarus

🖼 The Raising of Lazarus, 1608-09
Oil on canvas
380 × 275 cm
Messina, Italy

Dramatic light pierces darkness as Christ gestures toward the shrouded corpse of Lazarus, whose attendants strain to lift him from the tomb. Caravaggio's revolutionary chiaroscuro and visceral humanity transformed religious narrative into urgent, tangible drama, establishing baroque spirituality through raw emotion rather than ethereal idealization.

Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Sebastian Schütze
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