The Resurrection

Bartholomeus Breenbergh's Resurrection from around 1635 combines the artist's Italianate landscape style with religious narrative. Breenbergh spent over a decade in Rome before returning to Amsterdam, where he produced biblical subjects set in classicized landscape settings. His synthesis of Roman landscape tradition with Protestant religious subjects served the Dutch Reformed market for devotional imagery that avoided the exuberance of Catholic Baroque painting.

Breenbergh's oil-on-panel technique renders the Resurrection scene within an atmospheric landscape setting bathed in warm, Roman light. The careful balance of figure composition with landscape elements demonstrates his ability to integrate narrative drama with the Italianate landscape tradition.