Piero della Francesca's Resurrection of Christ, named by Aldous Huxley as the world's greatest picture.
Serious planning for my trip to Italy next year (April-May). I've booked to stay in Sansepolcro, a small town that houses this painting in its Museo Civico, plus other Piero masterpieces. I've never been a big fan of Piero, so won't be doing the whole "Piero trail", but feel I must make an effort to see this. Christ resurrected and militant; the expression on his face is so uncompromising, so hard, no namby-pamby Christ this one. Magnificent.
P.S. I notice from my statistics that the horrible vampirestats has temporarily relinquished my blog. (This is a referrer that refers sites on to pornwatchers.) No doubt they will return; here's hoping they get an eyeful of this vengeful Jesus ready to whop them with his flag.
vampirestats seems to have transferred their allegiance to me.
ReplyDeleteNooo! I've got them back too, blast them.
Deletev jealous you are going to Italy, I still think about it every single day.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's very exciting. Not looking forward to the flying part though. I'll try and blog about it, but Internet connections seem a bit few and far between there.
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