Vecchietta (Lorenzo di Pietro)

In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator, examine Vecchietta’s bronze relief The Resurrection,—the only signed work by the artist outside of Italy—with Assistant Curator of Sculpture Giulio Dalvit. Vecchietta’s depiction of this miracle defies the laws of perspective, with Christ rendered in such high relief that he seems to be emerging from the composition as he comes back to life—an astonishing confluence of making and meaning.