The Resurrection.

Andrea di Bartolo was a Sienese painter, the son of Bartolo di Fredi, who worked in the late Gothic style of Siena into the early fifteenth century. His Resurrection, dated around 1400, depicts Christ emerging from the tomb while Roman soldiers sleep or cower — a subject that emphasized triumphant divine power over death and worldly authority. Sienese painting of this period maintained a distinctive grace and decorative refinement different from the more robustly physical Florentine tradition, and Andrea di Bartolo worked within the established Sienese idiom rather than pushing toward naturalist innovation.

The Resurrection composition follows Sienese convention in placing Christ at center top, the tomb below and soldiers in the lower register. Gold ground and fine tooled halos maintain Byzantine decorative tradition. Drapery in Sienese late Gothic style creates elegant curved surfaces through fine linear marks rather than the sculptural structural folds of Florentine painting.