Resurrection of Lazarus

Nicolas Froment painted the Resurrection of Lazarus around 1461, one of the key works of the Provençal school of painting in fifteenth-century France. Froment was the leading painter in Aix-en-Provence and worked under the patronage of René I of Anjou, the cultured ruler of Provence who was also titular King of Naples and Jerusalem. The painting reflects the strong influence of Netherlandish art that characterized southern French painting of this period, transmitted through commercial and cultural connections between Provence, Burgundy, and the Low Countries.

Froment combines Netherlandish precision in surface textures and spatial construction with a distinctly southern palette of warm, saturated colors. The composition arranges the figures around the dramatic central moment of Lazarus emerging from his tomb, with careful attention to the varied emotional reactions of the surrounding witnesses.