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Lazarus and the Rich Man

c. 1550

Jacopo Bassano

(Italian, c. 1510–1592)
Culture
Italy, 16th century
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 176 x 251 x 12 cm (69 5/16 x 98 13/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 146 x 221 cm (57 1/2 x 87 in.)
Credit Line
Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1939.68
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Location
217 Italian Baroque
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The Rich Man (far right) and Lazarus (far left) are both physically and socially opposed; while Lazarus reclines on the floor, the Rich Man relaxes on his lavish table.

Description

The Biblical parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man (Luke 16:19-21) tells of a man who feasted and celebrated every day, while a beggar named Lazarus sat starving nearby. Dogs came to lick the sores on the poor man's body. However, when the two men died, Lazarus was welcomed into heaven, while the rich man was consigned to hell.
A horizontally oriented oil painting in gray-tinted colors depicts people gathered around a table on our right while a shirtless man reclines on the floor to our left, dogs in the center licking his legs. Everyone has a light skin tone. Wearing a gray-purple coat, one man leans his elbow on the table, facing two other people looking at him. A child wearing dark blue stands next to them in front of a column.

Lazarus and the Rich Man

c. 1550

Jacopo Bassano

(Italian, c. 1510–1592)
Italy, 16th century

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