A man draped in a white cloth steps toward us onto a ledge as he holds a red staff with a white banner in one hand and holds up the other hand to show a wound on the palm in this vertical painting. His pale face has a yellow cast but he has rosy cheeks, and his body is eggshell white. Near the upper left corner of the painting, his raised right hand, to our left, is held palm out to show it has been pierced. The cardinal-red staff he supports in his other hand has a long, fluttering banner with a red cross against a white background. He bends his right knee deeply, so his bare foot rests on…
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Christ Risen from the Tomb

Bergognone (Lombard, c. 1453 - 1523)

c. 1490

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 114.5 x 61.2 cm (45 1/16 x 24 1/8 in.) ; framed: 149.5 x 81.3 x 10.2 cm (58 7/8 x 32 x 4 in.)
Culture
Lombard
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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