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Resurrection.
The post title is the name of this 1483 painting by Piero della Francesca.
Writing in his Lectures on Fine Art on the portrayal of Jesus in the Christian visual tradition, Hegel is doubtful whether it lies within the capacity of painting to represent those awesome moments in which the specifically divine aspects of Christ are revealed in the resurrection, the transfiguration, or the ascension. Painting has no difficulty in showing Christ in his human or earthly aspects, as a teacher, a preacher, a leader, a man of anger and forgiveness, and of course as a man capable of terrible suffering. But where "his Divinity should break out from his human personality," Hegel writes, "painting comes up against new difficulties." It is easy enough to say, in words, that Christ was at once man and god, but to show this complex metaphysical nature in a way that is visually convincing tested the powers of a painterly tradition that defined its achievement in naturalistic terms. "The means at the disposal of painting," the philosopher says, "the human figure and its color, the flashing glance of the eye, are insufficient."
Piero della Francesca's Resurrection... overcomes Hegel's difficulties so magnificently.... Piero has shown us what it must have felt like to be the subject of a resurrection, and expressed it in a way that each of us, whatever our religious convictions, can understand. Christ recognizes that something undeniable has taken place, which nonetheless strains the limits of credibility. He is shown at an instant of stunned triumph. His is the expression of someone who accepts, and is even awed by, what he has no way of doubting but cannot altogether believe. To be sure, he had predicted that it would happen, and his followers were enough convinced of its inevitability that the Romans were obliged to take precautions, sealing the tomb and stationing soldiers there to prevent the body's being stolen and resurrection falsely claimed. The guard at the extreme right seems to have awakened, even to have seen the miracle that he must have interpreted as a dream, for such is the torpor of his body that he seems to be sinking back into sleep, having raised himself on one arm. Only Christ is awake, but in a sense of "awake" that contrasts not so much with "asleep" as with "dead."....
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