Vecchietta (Lorenzo di Pietro)

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Vecchietta

Title: Vecchietta

Authors: Giulio Dalvit

Publisher: The Frick Collection in association with Paul Holberton Publishing (2025)

Details: Hardcover, 11 x 9 1/2 in., 352 pages, approx. 200 illustrations

ISBN: 9781913645946

video still of Giulio Dalvit and sculpture relief of The Resurrection
Cocktails with a Curator™: Vecchietta’s “Resurrection”

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.