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The Resurrection — Benvenuto di Giovanni
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The Resurrection

Benvenuto di Giovanni (Sienese, 1436–before 1517)
Date probably 1491
Collection National Gallery of Art, Washington
Subject The Life of Christ
Season Ordinary Time
Master 7,855 px
License PD/CC0
Attribution National Gallery of Art, Washington · 1952.5.55

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Benvenuto di Giovanni | Sienese, 1436 - before 1517
Date probably 1491
Medium tempera on panel
Dimensions painted surface: 42.1 × 47.4 cm (16 9/16 × 18 11/16 in.); overall: 43.5 × 49.7 cm (17 1/8 × 19 9/16 in.); framed (with four other paintings): 59.69 × 283.21 × 5.4 cm (23 1/2 × 111 1/2 × 2 1/8 in.)
Holding National Gallery of Art, Washington · 1952.5.55

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Master 7,855 px on the long edge
Rights PD/CC0 — the photograph as well as the painting

Sizes

18×24 in$140
sheet 24×18 in · image 20.4×18 in · archival margin · 385 dpi
24×36 in$190
sheet 36×24 in · image 27.2×24 in · archival margin · 289 dpi
32×48 in$340
sheet 48×32 in · image 36.3×32 in · archival margin · 217 dpi
40×60 in$480
sheet 60×40 in · image 45.3×40 in · archival margin · 173 dpi
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About this painting

No evangelist saw this. London's National Gallery says flatly: no Gospel writer describes Christ standing on his tomb. Matthew has guards who fall as dead men, and women who find the stone rolled back; the rising happens in the gap.

It was cut from a strip. Five scenes ran beneath the Ascension Benvenuto signed in 1491 for Sant'Eugenio outside Siena; when the altarpiece was moved, the Kress Foundation notes, the predella was divided among the monks' cells. Around 1824 Luigi De Angelis listed them: one the crucifixion, the third the resurrection. The moment nobody saw, hung where one man slept.

Sources: The National Gallery, London, 'The Resurrection', Imitator of Andrea Mantegna, NG1106, catalogue text. · Matthew 28:1-6, Douay-Rheims (Challoner). · Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Kress Collection record, 'The Crucifixion', K1647B (companion panel), provenance notes. · National Gallery of Art, artist biography, Benvenuto di Giovanni (NGA Systematic Catalogue). · Google Arts & Culture, National Gallery of Art, 'The Resurrection', Benvenuto di Giovanni. · National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'The Resurrection', Benvenuto di Giovanni; exhibition history.

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 7,855 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.