The Resurrection
Marco Zoppo (Marco Ruggeri known as Lo Zoppo) Italian
Not on view
In this vivid imagining of the Resurrection, the risen Christ stands poised in the foreground, his right hand raised as if to bless the viewer. Behind him, four guards slumber around the empty tomb, unaware of the miracle that has occurred. Zoppo, an innovative painter and draftsman active in Padua, Venice, and Bologna, responded to artistic trends in northern Italy, among them the achievements of the sculptor Donatello, whose years in Padua overlapped with his own. In the drawing, Zoppo sharply defines Christ’s musculature and arranges the composition in shallow, compressed layers, akin to a sculptural relief. His dramatic handling of chiaroscuro and tonal effects, achieved with dark wash and white tempera on greenish-brown paper preparation, further evokes the appearance of a bronze sculpture. This highly finished sheet is not connected with any known painting by Zoppo and was probably an autonomous work made for a humanist collector.
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