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Chapters: Flagellation of Christ, Brera Madonna, the History of the True Cross, Madonna Del Parto, Madonna Della Misericordia, Resurrection, the Baptism of Christ, Polyptych of Perugia, Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Madonna Di Senigallia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Flagellation of Christ (probably 14551460) is a painting by Piero della Francesca in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino, Italy. Called by one writer an "enigmatic little painting," the composition is complex and unusual, and its iconography has been the subject of widely differing theories. Kenneth Clark placed The Flagellation in his personal list of the best ten paintings, calling it 'the greatest small painting in the world'. The theme of the picture is the Flagellation of Christ by the Romans during his Passion. The biblical event takes place in an open gallery in the near distance, while three figures in the foreground on the right-hand side apparently pay no attention to the event unfolding behind them. The panel is much admired for its use of linear perspective and the air of stillness that pervades the work, and it has been given the epithet "the Greatest Small Painting in the World". The painting is signed under the seated emperor OPVS PETRI DE BVRGO SCI SEPVLCRI "the work of Piero of Borgo Santo Sepolcro" (his native town). The Flagellation is particularly admired for the mathematical unity of the composition, and Piero's ability to depict the distance between the actual flagellation scene and the three characters in the foreground realistically through perspective. The portrait of the bearded man on the left is considered unusually intense for Piero's time. Much of the scholarly debate surrounding the work concerns the identities or signi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12464779 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : La Flagellation Du Christ, le Baptême Du Christ, L'annonciation, La Conversation Sacrée, La Nativité, Madonna Della Misericordia, le Triomphe de La Chasteté. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : La Flagellation du Christ diego (Flagellazione di Cristo) est une œuvre de Piero della Francesca réalisée probablement vers 1455 avant son retour à Sansepolcro. Tempera sur bois de peuplier de 59 cm x 81 cm, conservée à la Galleria nazionale delle Marche d'Urbino. Le tableau est mentionné pour la première fois en 1744 dans l'inventaire des biens de la vieille sacristie d'Urbino. Il est décrit comme « la flagellation de Notre Seigneur contre une colonne, et, à part, les illustrissimes ducs Otto Antonio, Federico et Guidobaldo (duchi Otto Antonio, Federico, e Guid'Ubo) , peints par Pietro del Borgho.» L'historien de l'art Johann David Passavant est le premier, en 1839, à signaler une inscription figurant sur le cadre du tableau : convenerunt in unum : « ils se mirent d' accord et s'allièrent. » Il s'agit d'une citation tirée de la Bible, qui apparaît d'abord dans les Psaumes (Psaumes, II, 2), puis dans les Actes (Actes, IV, 26). Crowe et Cavalcaselle signalent, dès 1864, que l'inscription a disparu. Une restauration du tableau est menée à la fin du siècle afin de renforcer le dos du tableau. Elle cause trois grandes craquelures sur la toile. En 1951-1952, le tableau est restauré par l'Istituto Centrale del Restauro de Rome. Les trois craquelures sont repeintes. Une nouvelle restauration a lieu en 1968, toujours à l'Istituto Centrale del Restauro de Rome. La flagellation du Christ est un des thèmes de l'iconographie de la peinture chrétienne, soit un des épisodes du début de la Passion du Christ, après sa cond...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Piero della Francesca of all Italian painters, is the one to whom our modern sensibility most readily responds.In the Church of San Francesco at Arezzo and in the museums where they hang, his paintings cast a spell on the visitor; they initiate him into a spiritual realm in which men and women like ourselves walk in the sunlight of eternity.Master of serene colors, adept in geometry and mathematics, creator of monumental forms, Piero della Francesca stands out, between Masaccio and Leonardo, as one of the great spokesmen of Renaissance humanism. ... Read more