
Marco Pino's The Resurrection of Lazarus
Marco Pino, one of the most important painters working in southern Italy during the later Renaissance, is the subject of this lecture from Yale's course Let This Be a Lesson. The lecturer surveys Pino's career before turning to a close analysis of his painting The Resurrection of Lazarus, a lesser known but accomplished work. The talk examines how Pino handles a Gospel episode painted by many artists of the period, centered on doubt, decay, and salvation, including the moment when Martha warns Christ that her brother's body already stinks. Attention goes to composition, gesture, and how Pino distinguishes his version from other treatments of the same subject. The lecture works as both an introduction to a painter who rarely gets sustained attention and a case study in how Renaissance artists translated a specific biblical text into visual narrative.