He raises his right hand.
Bible in art · John
The Raising of Lazarus (Ms. 101, fol. 61, from the Illustrated Vita Christi, with devotional supplements)
Unknown English painter · about 1190–1200; text and illumination added about 1480–1490
Getty Center, Los Angeles
One of the English paintings of about 1190–1200, perhaps from York, later bound into a picture life of Christ made in East Anglia. Strong outlines, gold leaf and bright blue, orange and green mark this older style.
Jesus, in a blue mantle, raises his hand. Lazarus sits up in a stone tomb, wrapped in a pink shroud, and the lid lies slanting across the front. A woman at the right holds her face.
From the text
- “Take away the stone” (John 11:39)
- He came out bound in strips of linen (John 11:44)
- Martha warns that he has been dead four days (John 11:39)
The artist’s own
- The tomb as a carved stone chest
- The lid painted as a long white slab
Details
Jesus
Lazarus
He sits up in the tomb, wrapped in cloth.
The stone
The lid lies slanted across the tomb.
A woman
A woman in white holds her face.
Unknown illuminator, English (perhaps York). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (Ms. 101 (2008.3), fol. 61) · Tempera colors and gold leaf, on parchment · Images provided here are believed to be in the public domain and are available under CC0 through Getty’s Open Content Program. (Getty record: "No Copyright", http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)