The Resurrection

Francesco Botticini painted this Resurrection scene around 1485 as part of an altarpiece predella or independent devotional panel. Working in Florence alongside more celebrated contemporaries like Botticelli and Ghirlandaio, Botticini maintained a steady workshop practice producing competent devotional works. His eclectic style borrowed freely from the leading masters of his generation. This work belongs to the Early Renaissance, the transformative period in European art when painters first applied mathematical perspective, naturalistic figure modeling, and archaeological interest in antiquity to the inherited traditions of medieval devotional painting.

Tempera on panel with clear, bright coloring and competent figure drawing. Botticini's treatment of the risen Christ and the sleeping soldiers follows established Florentine iconographic models.