\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 In this painting, the religious theme of the Resurrection is set outside the church at Cookham, the center of SpencerÆs spir
itual life and a place that he considered paradise on earth.\par
Men and women are emerging from the tombs with slow movements, imparting a sense of calm and serenity.\par
In the middle, under a shrine covered with roses, we see the figures of God the
Father and Jesus Christ, to whom the painter gives the semblance of a mother cradling her children.\par
Prophets and other figures from the Old Testament, recognizable by their white clothes, surround them.\par
The painter includes his self-portrait in
the painting twice: in the naked figure standing at the center and in the one lying on the book-shaped tomb.\par
Spencer has also inserted portraits of several people dear to him, such as his wife Hilda, who is smelling a rose.\par
Among those risen f
rom the dead, different traits show the universality of the event.\par
In the upper left-hand corner, there is a glimpse of the river Thames, a metaphorical allusion to the river of life.
