Christ Risen from the Tomb – (Ambrogio Da Fossano (Ambrogio Bergognone)) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: Ambrogio Da Fossano (Ambrogio Bergognone)

Date: 1490

Size: 150 x 81 cm

Technique: Oil On Panel

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 a low wall or side of a casket in front of him. He looks up with brown eyes under curved eyebrows. He has a straight nose, and his small, rose-pink mouth is closed. He has shoulder-length, brown curly hair and a forked beard. His voluminous ivory-white cloth drapes over one shoulder and hangs in deep folds across the arm holding the banner and the opposite knee. He has a bloody gash over his right ribs. His entire body is surrounded by radiating lines encompassed in a glowing, golden halo. The corners around the halo are celestial blue. The ledge where he props his foot is painted to look like yellow marble veined with gray, framed with fawn-brown molding along the top edge. A round, black medallion flecked with celery green at the front center of the panel is also surrounded with with brown molding.