Resurrección de Cristo

Bartolome Bermejo came from Cordoba but did his known work across the Crown of Aragon in the late 1400s, and he was among the very few painters in Spain then who had truly absorbed the oil technique of the Netherlands, that deep, glassy colour you usually meet north of the Pyrenees. This risen Christ, stepping from the tomb over sleeping soldiers, is one panel from an altarpiece that was later broken up and scattered. Four of its compartments survive. This one and its neighbours only resurfaced in a Paris collection in the 1890s and were sold to Barcelona buyers around 1914. Bermejo left few signed works, and for a long time he was nearly forgotten before scholars pieced his career back together from panels like this one.