Resurrection (Piero Della Francesca)
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| Artist | Piero della Francesca |
| Year | 1463-1465 |
| Dimensions (H L) | 225 cm x 200 cm |
| Location | Museo Civico di Sansepolcro , Sansepolcro , Italy |
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Resurrection (The Resurrezione) is a work of Piero della Francesca conducted between 1463 and 1465, 2.25 m by 2.00 m, is still on the place of its creation: one wall of what is now the and was the where they held meetings of the Council.
It is a fresco with additions in tempera.
Summary |
Jesus, after His death on the cross and buried, is seen emerging from his tomb or sarcophagus, of sleeping soldiers are lying around (they can be awakened and surprised by the appearance), Mount Calvary 's ordeal can be seen with three crosses. Christ appears in bust or rises in the air flying his banner. The presence of angels witnessed the scene is possible.
Description
Christ standing, leaving the tomb, faces the viewer, wearing the symbolic banner of the Resurrection, white with a red cross (that of the Crusaders )
With his hand which is the pink gown and the foot on the edge of the grave, all wounds are visible.
Christ surrounded by trees on both sides of a hilly landscape. The two trunks of trees and the flagpole banner form a grid vertical line passing through the pole crosses the horizontal top of the sarcophagus, the head of the soldier leaning against the front.
The soldiers slept on the floor of Christ are separated by the horizontal line of the sarcophagus.
The painted frame continuous support architectural moldings Analysis The composition arises in depth on three levels: the landscape background, Christ leaving the tomb in the middle, the sleeping soldiers in the foreground. A composition is pyramidal with the base, the alignment of sleeping soldiers, and Christ standing at the top. Christ surrounded by trees dead of winter, symbolizing death, to his right and deciduous trees, living on the left of spring, symbolizing the new birth. The supposed self-portrait of the author's picture is the intersection of the vertical shaft of the banner and the horizontal top of the sarcophagus. Aldous Huxley , author of Brave New World, alludes to this work in his book On the way to travel . He who described the fresco of the Resurrection "more beautiful painting ever undertaken" (The Greatest Painting in the world), has indirectly saved at the height of the Second World War : In 1944, Sansepolcro was on the frontline. Anthony Clarke, an officer in the artillery, who had read the book travel Huxley did not intend to take responsibility for the destruction of the fresco by Piero della Francesca. He ordered to temporarily cease fire. The next day, Allied forces could take over the town without firing a shot. Clarke then asked to be told the whereabouts of the painting and found intact Aldous Huxley , who admired the works of Piero della Francesca in Sansepolcro exposed, "said the Resurrection of Christ that he was" athletic ". Trivia
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