03 — ARTWORK
Resurrection (detail)
PIERO della FRANCESCA · 1465 →
- MEDIUM
- Mural in fresco and tempera
- TYPE
- Religious
PALETTE
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PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA (b. 1416, Borgo San Sepolcro, d. 1492, Borgo San Sepolcro)
Resurrection (detail) 1463-65 Mural in frescoWall painting technique in which pigments are applied to wet (fresh) plaster (intonaco). The pigments bind with the drying plaster to form a very durable image. Only a small area can be painted in a day, and these areas, drying to a slightly different tint, can in time be seen. Small amounts of retouching and detail work could be carried out on the dry plaster, a technique known as a secco fresco. and temperaA method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with an emulsion of water and egg yolks or whole eggs (sometimes glue or milk). Tempera was widely used in Italian art in the 14th and 15th centuries, both for panel painting and fresco, then being replaced by oil paint. Tempera colors are bright and translucent, though because the paint dried very quickly there is little time to blend them, graduated tones being created by adding lighter or darker dots or lines of color to an area of dried paint. Pinacoteca Comunale, Sansepolcro
Above the figures of the sleeping sentries, Piero has placed the watchful Christ, no longer seen from below, but perfectly frontally. The resurrected Christ, portrayed with solid peasant features, is nonetheless a perfect representative of Piero's human ideal: concrete, restrained and hieratic as well.
The figure of the risen Christ is shown with the banner of Sansepolcro, the little town where the painter was born. The solemn moment when Christ rises from the tomb is depicted with an austere grandeur. On the left is a wintry landscape, arid and lifeless, while the other on the right is flourishing, spring like and alive, as Christ returns from the dead to waken all nature and humanity.
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