The Passion: The Raising of Lazarus (before 1508): Art, History and Details

The Passion: The Raising of Lazarus (before 1508) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Urs Graf the Elder (Swiss, c. 1485–1527/29).

The work and its context

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

The first woodcuts appeared in Europe at the end of the 14th century but were relatively rare until the early 15th century. By the 1430s thousands of woodcuts were available with simple, crude designs and were used as playing cards or as devotional images. Inexpensive, they were readily purchased at fairs, markets, and pilgrimage sites. Following the tradition of manuscript illumination, woodcuts were often hand-colored with watercolor, a quicker and cheaper process than printing with color.

Object facts

• Title: The Passion: The Raising of Lazarus
• Date: before 1508
• Creator attribution: Urs Graf the Elder (Swiss, c. 1485–1527/29)
• Culture: Switzerland
• Type: Print
• Technique: woodcut handcolored with watercolor
• Collection: PR - Woodcut
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1995.247

Collection credit

Gift of Norman Zaworski in memory of Tina Cowgill

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