576. THE THREE MARIES AT THE SEPULCHRE.
Orcagna (part of the altar-piece, 569).
Mary Magdalen, Mary the mother of James, and Salome stand beside the vacant tomb (Mark xvi. 1); on the opposite side are two angels: "he is risen, he is not here, behold the place where they laid him." This subject, common with the earliest painters, is afterwards seldom met with.