Resurrection

Carlo Crivelli painted this Resurrection panel around 1482 as part of one of his elaborate polyptych altarpieces in the Italian Marches. The risen Christ's triumphant emergence from the tomb provided the climactic scene in altarpiece Passion cycles. Crivelli's distinctive decorative vocabulary transforms even conventional subjects into striking visual statements. Carlo Crivelli was a Venetian-trained painter who spent most of his career in the Marche, the central Italian region east of the Apennines, where he executed altarpieces for churches in Ascoli Piceno, Camerino, and other provincial centers.

Tempera and gold on panel with Crivelli's unmistakable sharp linear definition and elaborate ornamental detail. The risen Christ figure is rendered with the angular intensity characteristic of Crivelli's distinctive approach.