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''Christ Appearing to his Mother after his Resurrection'' ( it, Il Risorto appare alla Madre) is a 1554 oil on canvas painting by
''Christ Appearing to his Mother after his Resurrection'' ( it, Il Risorto appare alla Madre) is a 1554 oil on canvas painting by Titian
Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (; 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian ( ), was an Italians, Italian (Republic of Venice, Venetian) painter of the Renaissance, considered the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school (art), ...
. He painted it whilst in Medole
Medole ( Upper Mantovano: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Mantua in the Italian region Lombardy, located about east of Milan and about northwest of Mantua.
Medole borders the following municipalities: Castel Goffredo, Castigl ...
in Mantua
Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard language, Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, province of the same name.
In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture ...
, where he was staying with the archpriest of Assunzione della Vergine, the town's parish church, the church in which it still hangs. It forms part of a series of works planned in his old age by the artist and it is his only altarpiece still in the province or city of Mantua.
Along with the titular figures, to the left the work also shows Noah
Noah ''Nukh''; am, ኖህ, ''Noḥ''; ar, نُوح '; grc, Νῶε ''Nôe'' () is the tenth and last of the pre-Flood patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions. His story appears in the Hebrew Bible (Book of Genesis, chapters 5– ...
, Abraham
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jew ...
, Adam
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as " ...
(carrying Christ's cross) and Eve
Eve (; ; ar, حَوَّاء, Ḥawwāʾ; el, Εὕα, Heúa; la, Eva, Heva; Syriac: romanized: ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the origin story, "Creation myths are symbolic stories describing how the ...
, all just released during Christ's Harrowing of Hell
In Christian theology, the Harrowing of Hell ( la, Descensus Christi ad Inferos, "the descent of Christ into Hell" or Hades) is an Old English and Middle English term referring to the period of time between the Crucifixion of Jesus and his re ...
. It formed part of the major 1935 retrospective of the artist's work in Venice. It was stolen in April 1968 but returned on 12 May the same year, but the work was damaged during the robbery and was subsequently sent to the Istituto Centrale del Restauro in Rome until being returned to the church in 1971. It then appeared in Mantua
Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard language, Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, province of the same name.
In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture ...
as part of the 1974 exhibition "Tesori d'arte nella terra dei Gonzaga".
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