Piero della Francesca

The Baptism of Christ

US$ 594.00

Christ stands in the shallow Jordan beneath a dove suspended in flat white light, with a pale tree, three angels and an ordinary Tuscan valley behind him. Piero organises everything by geometry — the dove, the bowl, the tree and the figures all sit on a scaffolding of circles and verticals you sense before you see. The result is stillness rather than drama.

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Piero della Francesca (c.1415-1492) was a mathematician as much as a painter, writing treatises on perspective and solid geometry that were studied long after his pictures fell out of fashion. His work was largely forgotten for four centuries and only returned to prominence in the twentieth, when modern painters recognised in his flat, ordered compositions something close to their own concerns. He went blind in old age and stopped painting entirely.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 32 × 46 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
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