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UCCELLO, Paolo: Crucifixion

🖼 Crucifixion, 1460-65
Tempera on panel
45 × 67 cm
Madrid, Spain

Geometric perspective dominates this Crucifixion, with Christ suspended above a precisely ordered landscape receding into distant vanishing points. Uccello's obsession with linear perspective transforms a sacred subject into a revolutionary study of Renaissance spatial construction and mathematical harmony.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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