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PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA: Polyptych of the Misericordia: Crucifixion

🖼 Polyptych of the Misericordia: Crucifixion, 1445-62
Oil and tempera on panel
81 × 52 cm
Padua, Italy

Geometric precision structures Christ's body suspended above a crowd rendered in cool, ethereal tones. Della Francesca's mathematical perspective and gold-leaf panels establish Renaissance ideals of divine order and spiritual clarity within devotional imagery.

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E. H. Gombrich
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