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Description: | The main panel of this triptych depicts the meeting of Christ and Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection. Mary was the first to see the risen Christ and the title Noli Me Tangere, or 'do not touch me', were Christ's first words to her according to the Latin Vulgate account. Christ is unexpectedly dressed, wearing the clothes and carrying the spade of a gardener. This refers to the textual reference in the Gospel of St John where the Mary Magdalene is said to have at first mistaken the Resurrected Christ for a gardener. This triptych was almost certainly commissioned as a family memorial by Joost Hendricksz Van der Stijpen van Duivelandt for the Nieuwe Kerk at Delft about 1550. | Subjects: | religion (Noli me Tangere) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Scorel, Jan van (Flemish painter and draftsman, 1495-1562) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9170... | Go to resource |
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