Scènes de la Vie du Christ : Résurrection.

Part of Mariotto di Nardo's narrative cycle of scenes from the Life of Christ now dispersed across Avignon's Musée du Petit Palais, this Resurrection panel depicts Christ emerging from the tomb in triumph. Di Nardo was a prolific Florentine painter who produced narrative cycles for institutional patrons — confraternities, hospitals, and churches — in the decades around 1400. The Resurrection was theologically indispensable in any such cycle, affirming the divine nature of Christ and providing the devotional pivot from Passion to glory. Di Nardo's treatment follows Florentine conventions: an upright, luminous Christ against a gold ground, sleeping guards below, the wound marks visible as signs of authenticated suffering.

Tempera and gold leaf on panel. The gold background flattens spatial recession, foregrounding symbolic meaning over narrative illusionism. Figure proportions follow the elongated Florentine Gothic tradition, with drapery rendered in sinuous, calligraphic folds.