JOURNAL ARCHIVES

AUTUMN 2008

SELF-PORTRAITS

Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-93)

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)

Piero della Francesca (1412-92)

Édouard Manet (1832-83)

Berthe Morisot (1841-95)

Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910)

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

Caterina van Hemessen (1528-87)

Marie-Denise Villers (1774-1821)

 

AUTUMN 2008

PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA (1412-92)

Resurrection. Piero della Francesca. 1460. Museo Civico. Sansepolcro, Italy. (below) detail which is a self-portrait of the artist The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. Rumi (1207-73), poet and theologian Piero della Francesca was an Italian artist who also was an accomplished mathematician and geometer. His mathematical knowledge influenced his art as evidenced by his use of foreshortening, geometric forms and innovative perspectives. Resurrection is one of his mature works and features the artist as one of the sleeping soldiers at the feet of Christ. The painting is set at dawn, at the very moment of resurrection. The theme of new life is mirrored in the trees in the background, with the trees on the left still leafless and dormant and the trees on the right flush with growth.