Christ and Hands

According to the plaque, Garofalo’s 1520 The Resurrection of Christ could not be moved due to conservationist concerns. So it had to share the space with some of Georg Baselitz’s “hand” series. But then, I think there’s more to the story. A lot of rooms were putting Baselitz together with old Renaissance works, and that can’t be a coincidence or because they ran out of space or something. The museum site does say this is “an exhibition project that has the artist [Bazelitz] enter into a visual dialogue with the Old Masters”. I’m not sure I followed the conversation, but I did enjoy the experience, and maybe that’s what matters