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THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
This painting is found in the Municipal Art Gallery of San Sepolcro near Arezzo. Piero della Francesca painted this fresco between 1463 and 1465 for his hometown, very likely before he moved to Rome. Here we can appreciate his ability to use archaic iconographic elements and adapt them to an absolutely new cultural and stylistic milieu.The composition is divided in two parts, each with its own separate perspective. The lower part, where the guards are sleeping, has a very low point of view which gives the scene monumental stability. Above them, Piero portrayed Jesus Christ, who is not seen from below, but has a perfectly frontal point of view. The Resurrected is a perfect representation of Piero's ideal man: practical and measured, but at the same time solemn. The splendid landscape also belongs to the folklore: Piero symbolically painted it half in winter and half coming back to life in spring, as resurrection.
Dimensions: 35,5 x 29 cm
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