Christ Healing the Lepers (1608): Art, History and Details

Christ Healing the Lepers (1608) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Andrea Andreani (Italian, about 1558–1610); Guiseppe Rossigliani (Italian, c. 1510-); Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This print portrays Christ—with the twelve apostles—miraculously healing a group of lepers encountered on his way to Jerusalem. Andrea Andreani who, after 1599, acquired a number of the earlier blocks of artists like Vicentino and Ugo de Carpi. He published these as his own, reworking them in some cases and adding his initials, an in the CMA example.

Object facts

• Title: Christ Healing the Lepers
• Date: 1608
• Creator attribution: Andrea Andreani (Italian, about 1558–1610); Guiseppe Rossigliani (Italian, c. 1510-); Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Print
• Technique: chiaroscuro woodcut (in two shades of gray and black)
• Dimensions: Sheet: 29.8 x 41.8 cm (11 3/4 x 16 7/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Chiaroscuro
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1925.983

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

Further reading listed by the museum

• Goldfarb, Hilliard T. “Chiaroscuro Woodcut Technique and Andrea Andreani.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 9 (November 1981): 307–330.

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