id:			146167
accession number:	1971.63
share license status:	CC0
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The Risen Christ Appearing to the Virgin, c. 1708. Francesco Solimena (Italian, 1657–1747). Oil on canvas; framed: 250.2 x 197.5 x 12.7 cm (98 1/2 x 77 3/4 x 5 in.); unframed: 222.5 x 169.5 cm (87 5/8 x 66 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1971.63

title:				The Risen Christ Appearing to the Virgin
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creation date:			c. 1708
creation date earliest:		1703
creation date latest:		1713
current location:		217 Italian Baroque
creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture:	Italy, 18th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 18th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Francesco Solimena (Italian, 1657–1747)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 250.2 x 197.5 x 12.7 cm (98 1/2 x 77 3/4 x 5 in.); Unframed: 222.5 x 169.5 cm (87 5/8 x 66 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1971
	opening date:   1971-12-28T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1971</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* London, Heim Gallery, 1971: "Fourteen Important Neapolitan Paintings," cat. no. 9, repr.color. <br>CMA, Dec. 1971-Jan.1972: "Year in Review 1971," cat., Bull., (Jan. 1972), no. 55. <br>Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, (9/9/87-12/6/87) Neapolitan Paintings in North America.

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PROVENANCE

	Unidentified church in France (sale: Palais des Congres, Versailles, May 24, 1970 [withdrawn], fig. D, as Spanish School, seventeenth century, La resurrection);
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	[Heim Gallery, Paris, London], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971.
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digital description:
The dramatic contrasts of light and dark reveal the long aftereffects of Caravaggio in Naples. Yet, the elegant forms, rich colors, and perfected body of Christ have far more affinities with the idealizing strand of Italian art in the 1600s and 1700s. Solimena sought to improve on nature, based on the study of antiquity, aiming to create a work of grandeur and nobility meant to inspire reverence and devotion appropriate to the holy subject.

wall description:
The dramatic contrasts of light and dark reveal the long aftereffects of Caravaggio in Naples. Yet, the elegant forms, rich colors, and perfected body of Christ have far more affinities with the paintings on the opposite wall, stemming from the idealizing strand of Italian art of the 1600s and 1700s. Solimena sought to improve on nature, based on the study of antiquity, aiming to create a work of grandeur and nobility meant to inspire reverence and devotion appropriate to the subject.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 140
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n160

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 417-419; Reproduced: p. 418
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	Marandel, J. Patrice. "Dealing and Scholarship: The Heim Gallery, London, 1966-1995." In  <em>Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America</em>. Bowron, Edgar Peters. ed. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Frick Collection, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 87-88
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	Spinosa, Nicola.<em> Francesco Solimena (1657-1747) e le arti a Napoli </em>Roma : Ugo Bozzi editore s.r.l., 2018.
	page number: 	Mentioned & Reproduced: p. 369, fig. 147
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