The Resurrection

Jacopo di Cione's Resurrection, painted around 1370, depicts Christ rising triumphantly from the tomb while soldiers sleep — a scene that formed part of the extensive San Pier Maggiore altarpiece programme now dispersed across the National Gallery, London. The Resurrection was the theological counterpart to the Crucifixion in Gothic altarpiece cycles, affirming the central Christian doctrine of salvation through Christ's victory over death. Jacopo's treatment follows the established Gothic iconographic formula while maintaining the dignified formal language of the Orcagna workshop.

Egg tempera and gold on panel with the restrained compositional balance typical of the Orcagna workshop's narrative panels. The risen Christ is rendered with hieratic frontality against the gold ground, while the sleeping soldiers provide a horizontal counterpoint at the tomb's base.