Marie-madeleine (Piero della Francesca)

Marie-madeleine , the Maddalena , is a work of Piero della Francesca, a fresco painted in 1460 and visible with the cathedral di San Donato of Arezzo.

Composition

Marie-madeleine is vêtue of a red tunic, thrown on a green dress.

The holy one holds a crystal bottle in hand, for which the prospect is accentuated while exploiting the effects of the refraction of the light.

The hair falling on its shoulders is painted one by one.

Analyzes

Marie Madeleine is vêtue of a green dress, emblematic color of the fertility,

Its red tunic attracts more by its mass and as at Botticelli, its place raised in the ecclesiastical hierarchy indicates.

The great masses of bright colors reveal the principles which will be those of the Venetian school 16th century.

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