Piero della Francesca

Chronology

Polyptych of the Misericordia

The Flagellation of Christ

St. Jerome in Penitence

Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta Praying in Front of St. Sigismund

Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta

St. Jerome and a Donor

The Baptism of Christ


The History of the True Cross
       Adoration of the Holy Wood and the Meeting of Solomon        and the Queen of Sheba
       Constantine's Dream

Mary Magdalene

Madonna del parto

St. Julian

Resurrection

Polyptych of Saint Augustine


Nativity

Polyptych of Perugia

Madonna and Child with Saints (Montefeltro Altarpiece)

Paired portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza

Madonna di Senigallia


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Piero della Francesca, Madonna di Senigallia, oil on panel, 67 cm × 53.5 cm (26 in × 21.1 in), Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

Piero della Francesca, Madonna di Senigallia, oil on panel, 67 cm × 53.5 cm (26 in × 21.1 in), Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino



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Piero della Francesca | Madonna di Senigallia


   
   

"We may be certain that our initial impression of the Arezzo frescos will be overwhelmingly one of color. I never revisit the Church of San Francesco without experiencing the same uprush of feeling that carne over me the first time I stood before that 'sacred wall,' with its greens and pinks, browns and whites, as fresh and pure as open meadowlands, a babe's cheek or limpid springwater... These are the colors of the world at the first dawn of time, as the sun broke over the earth."

Roberto Longhi, Piero della Francesca: 1927 [1]

 

 

   
   

The Madonna di Senigallia was finished by Piero della Francesca around 1474. It is housed in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, in the Ducal Palace of Urbino. The solid figures in Piero della Francesca's painting draw their inspiration from classical sculpture and the faces display an unusual lack of emotion. In 1897, the art critic Bernard Berenson wrote "Impersonality - that is the quality whereby (Piero) holds us spellbound, that is his most distinguishing virtue".

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Palazzo Ducale di Urbino Piazza Rinascimento 13, 61029 Urbino 

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Piero della Francesca, Madonna di Senigallia, oil on panel, 67 cm × 53.5 cm (26 in × 21.1 in), Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

 

 

Madonna di Senigallia di Piero della Francesca, 1470-85,5   Madonna di Senigallia di Piero della Francesca, 1470-85,4   Madonna di Senigallia di Piero della Francesca, 1470-85,6
Piero della Francesca, Madonna di Senigallia, details, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

 

     

 

 
 
   


[1] Roberto Longhi, Piero della Francesca: 1927: con aggiunte fino al 1962, Nuova ed., Firenze, Sansoni, 1963, p. 47
Roberto Longhi (1890 - 1970) was an Italian academic and art historian. The main subjects of his studies were the painters Caravaggio and Piero della Francesca. Whilst establishing himself as a notable Caravaggio scholar, Longhi retained a lively interest in Piero della Francesca, publishing a monograph in 1928, representing him as the leading painter of the Quattrocento. He believed Piero played a decisive role in the development of Viennese painting. This monograph, which Kenneth Clark opined could hardly be improved upon, is a classic of art-historical literature. [Bloch, Vitale (October 1971). "Obituaries: Roberto Longhi"The Burlington Magazine 113 (823): 609–612] 



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