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PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA: Polyptych of St Augustine: Crucifixion

🖼 Polyptych of St Augustine: Crucifixion, c. 1460
Tempera on panel
37 × 41 cm
New York, USA

Geometric precision frames Christ suspended between earth and sky, rendered in Della Francesca's crystalline light and mathematical perspective. This Renaissance masterwork synthesizes spiritual devotion with scientific rationality, establishing the Crucifixion as an ordered, intelligible cosmos rather than emotional spectacle.

The story of art
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E. H. Gombrich
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