Mary Magdalene has just recognized Him. She kneels in a flaming red-orange dress, reaching out, and the risen Christ raises His hand: “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father.”
Ivanov set the scene in the gardens of the Villa d’Este near Rome. The painting won him the title of Academician in 1836.
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