Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Flagellation of Christ
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Flagellation of Christ
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Image View:
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Detail, Christ is whipped while Pontius Pilate watches; the bronze figure on the column shows masterly reflection of light
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Creator:
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Piero della Francesca (Italian painter, ca. 1415-1492)
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Location:
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repository: Galleria Nazionale delle Marche (Urbino, Marches, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Palazzo Ducale di Urbino Piazza Rinascimento 13
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GPS:
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+43.723333+12.637778
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Date:
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ca. 1455 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Fifteenth century; Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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panel painting
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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tempera and oil paint on wood panel
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Technique:
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painting and painting techniques
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Measurements:
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59 cm (height) x 82 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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architecture; New Testament; Federico, da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, 1422-1482; Jesus Christ; Passion of Christ; linear perspective
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Description:
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The signed Flagellation is in a sense a summation of Piero’s artistic interests: a rigorous construction based on modular measurements, a conception of composition and istoria worthy of Alberti and the use of Classical figures and architecture, all depicted with his precise and extraordinary command of light. The figure of the man in Turkish dress, whose turban is described with the aid of minuscule pouncing and whose Classical drapery is lit by separate sources of light (the underside of his left hand catches the natural light in a manner reminiscent of Jan van Eyck), represents the summit of Piero’s art. From the 18th century, when the Flagellation was recorded in the sacristy of Urbino Cathedral, descriptions of this enigmatic panel have focused on the identity of the three figures on the right. These were once thought to portray members of the Montefeltro family or to allude to the assassination in 1444 of Oddantonio da Montefeltro by his half-brother Federigo da Montefeltro, later Duke of Urbino and an important patron of Piero. Uncertainty about the date of this picture (probably mid-1450s) and its destination has led to many interpretations. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-PIERO-GNM-FC-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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