Resurrection
unknown (South German School)
Basic information
- ID
- С-I-235
- Author
- unknown (South German School)
- Name
- Resurrection
- Date of creation
- early 16th c.
- Country
- Germany
- Culture
- Late Renaissance
- Technique
- carving
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 44 x 35
Additionally
- Type
- sculpture sculpture (relief)
- Genre
- religious
- Provenance
- Collection of Leon Pininski
Information about author
Object description
According to the Christian tradition, on the third day after His suffering and death, Jesus Christ came to life by the power of His Deity; that is, He rose from the dead. His human body was transformed. He went out of the tomb, invisible to the guards, without rolling away the stone or breaking the Sanhedrin's seal. From that moment on, the soldiers, without knowing it, guarded the empty tomb. Suddenly, there was a great earthquake. An angel of the Lord descended from heaven, rolled away the stone from the tomb and sat on it. He looked like lightning, and his clothes were as white as snow. The soldiers guarding the tomb trembled with fear as if they were dead, and then, having recovered, they scattered. In the relief from the collection of Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery, the Risen Jesus is depicted in front, in circular clouds, on the lid of the tomb, among the frightened guards. The image belongs to the German sculptural school of the early sixteenth century, as evidenced by the narrative nature, imperfect proportions, and rigidity of the modelling of conventional human figures.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
