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Christ knew Lazarus and his sisters, Martha and Mary, who sent for him when Lazarus became sick. He didn‘t go at once: Lazarus lived in Bethany, where Christ had been stoned for his radical preaching and his disciples were reluctant for him to return. On hearing that Lazarus was dead they set off, arriving to find that he had died four days before. In spite of objections, Christ ordered the stone to be rolled away from the grave, gave a blessing, and Lazarus was revived. The raising of Lazarus, told in the Gospel of John, is thought to prefigure Christ’s death and the Resurrection. Here, Simon de Vos has put a seventeenth-century interpretation on the story, using contemporary clothing for the women while the men are in versions of imagined ’biblical dress'.
Title
The Raising of Lazarus
Date
1625-76
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 109.2 x W 160 cm
Accession number
NG6384
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Mrs Marion C. Smith, 1967
Work type
Painting
