Resurrection

From a wide-horizon vision, which embraced and drew into the dramatic core of the scene the vastest and most complex natural and architectural settings, as in the Padua reliefs, the old Master now seems to narrow his aim to individual episodes, while linking them in a framework that is fully animated and articulated in structures of a scenographic realism of extraordinary objectivity. Christ rises laboriously from the sleep of death, a heart-rending figure who towers over the setting of a sacred play: “a power greater than himself draws him from death to life, amid the irreparably extinguished sleep of the soldiers and the now remote, and I would almost say buried, elegance of the pagan weapons and emblems”