The Resurrection  1620

by Cecco del Caravaggio

[i]The Resurrection[/i], the only documented painting by Francesco Buoneri, was commissioned in 1619 by the Tuscan ambassador to Rome, Piero Guicciardini, as one of several altarpieces for his family’s chapel in Florence. In a turn of events that was not uncommon in the rapidly evolving artistic scene of early-17th-century Rome, the painting was rejected by Guicciardini an...
Size: 
339.1 × 199.5 cm (133 1/2 × 78 1/2 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago