The Raising of Lazarus
The original, as its museum records it
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Christ's right arm is raised, finger extended — the same gesture God uses to give Adam life on the Sistine ceiling, the gesture Caravaggio gave Christ calling Matthew. His figure is kept in shadow: the light does not decorate, it argues with a dark that still owns the upper half of the canvas.
Delivered to a Messina church on 10 June 1609, for a fee the early biography puts at 1,000 scudi.
Lazarus wakes with his arms flung wide, a body shaped like the cross. Christ's other hand, the museum notes, points down at the bones in the foreground.
Sources: Dominicans in Scotland, "Caravaggio's Raising of Lazarus". · Museo Regionale Interdisciplinare 'Maria Accascina' di Messina, 'Resurrezione di Lazzaro'. · Francesco Susinno, Le vite de' pittori messinesi (c. 1724)
When he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth.
John 11:43 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 14,882 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.