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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Iconodule, post: 10905163, member: 91417&quot;]I love modern versions of traditional medieval &amp; Renaissance themes. But what is the image above Mary the Mother and John? Can you supply an in-focus detail?&nbsp; Does anyone have an idea?&nbsp; Possibly the rending of the veil of the Temple? (Luke 23:45)&nbsp; Or is the gold a bipedal/human form, making the scene a stylized Resurrection image (golden glow for resurrected Christ???) and the dome a reference to the Early Christian Holy Sepulchre???&nbsp; Presumably, artist had something in mind, but it doesn&#039;t seem very clear.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trees (the side panels/wings of the triptych) are usually not part of the core Crucifixion iconography (unless just part of a landscape background), but one living and one dead tree often appear in Renaissance Resurrection scenes (Ex.: Piero della Francesca). But here they both seem to have leaves and fruit (So did the artist add them as foreshadowing the Resurrection or with no particular meaning--just easier than portraying a detailed Calvary scene with Centurion Longinus /soldiers on one side and Caiaphas and priests/elders on the other?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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