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.