The scene is set in a walled garden, perhaps monastic, depicted with loving care: regular hedges bordered by a trellis and espaliers of fruit shrubs make up the plant elements. An enormous palm, on the left, alludes to the martyrdom suffered by Christ. Small figures in the background allude to other episodes of the days following the Resurrection, such as the three Marys at the sepulcher and the Samaritan woman at the well. The protagonist figures stand out in the foreground with the Magdalene on the left, kneeling and stretched out, and the risen Jesus on the right, with the Crusader banner. The iconography and the traditional setting, with the horizon line near the center, and the soft and nuanced drawing, derived from the example of
Piero di Cosimo, the artist's first master. The monumentality of the figures instead derives from the example of the colleagues active in the
convent of San Marco and marks a clear departure from the fifteenth-century modes of the Florentine repertoire. These elements, together with a certain uncertainty in connecting the near and the far in the background, mark the painting as an early work. ==References==