Resurrection
Jorge Afonso·1517
Historical Context
Jorge Afonso, the leading Portuguese painter of the Manueline period and court painter to King Manuel I, depicted the Resurrection around 1517. Afonso directed the most important workshop in Lisbon, training a generation of Portuguese painters and establishing the Luso-Flemish style that combined Netherlandish technique with Portuguese devotional sensibilities. The tempera medium required careful preparation on a gessoed panel and a disciplined layering technique that produced precise, durable surfaces suited to the intricate detail expected of devotional painting.
Technical Analysis
The panel reflects Afonso's synthesis of Flemish precision with Portuguese devotional intensity, using rich color and gilding within compositions influenced by imported Netherlandish models.
