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Polyptych with the Resurrection

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Description: Polyptych with the Resurrection

TitlePolyptych with the Resurrection

Creator nameNiccolò di Segna

Creator name (description)Created by Sienese Master, perhaps Niccolò di Segna

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1300–1400

Object typePainting

MaterialsUnknown

LocationDuomo, Sansepolcro, Italy

SubjectsPainting, RenaissanceResurrection in artChristian art and symbolismJesus Christ--Art

StatusFormerly located in the church of Santa Chiara

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7. Piero della Francesca's The Resurrection of Christ

Michael Baxandall

Description: Words for Pictures: Seven Papers on Renaissance Art and Criticism

Words for Pictures: Seven Papers on Renaissance Art and Criticism

Looking at The Resurrection of Christ (figs 11–17) one soon meets a series of pictorial events, as I shall heavily call them sometimes – ‘pictorial’ in that they are proper not just to seeing but to seeing a depiction on a plane surface; and ‘events’ in the sense that one may be led to consider them as outcomes from conditions. These events must be part of a sense that the picture has a character beyond the sum of objects represented. …

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Michael Baxandall

PublisherYale University Press

Copyright© 2003 by Michael Baxandall

Related print edition pages: pp.117-164

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00179.009

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-13453&redirecttoanchor=4573

Chapter subject tags:Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492Bible--History of Biblical events--ArtRhetoric, RenaissancePainting, Renaissance--ItalyAltarpieces, Renaissance--Italy

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