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<center><b>Who painted the masterpiece fresco 'The Resurrection of Christ' around 1450? </center></b>

<b>'The Resurrection of Christ' fresco is one of Piero della Francesca's masterpieces.</b> His painting is characterized by its unique style, its serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective.<br><br> 'The Resurrection of Christ' fresco was a surprisingly rare subject matter in that period. Christ is shown triumphantly placing one foot on his tomb while in the foreground are a group of four sleeping soldiers. Almost nothing in the scene is what we might expect to see having read the New Testament. Christ is holding a flag, his tomb is a sarcophagus, the soldiers are not dressed in recognizable Roman attire, and the background landscape looks decidedly European. The foreshortened foreground figures and distant background of trees and hills only serve to bring the central figure more prominently to the viewer's gaze. In addition, by painting Christ full-frontal, he seems to inhabit a different space from the other figures, emphasizing his other worldliness. <br><br> <center><b><a href='https://www.theartstory.org/artist/della-francesca-piero/artworks/'>CLICK HERE to enjoy more paintings by <br><i>'Piero della Francesca'<br></i> on TheArtStory.org</a><br><br> <table> <tr><td><center><img src='../cms/images/Resurrection Francesca.jpg'height='175px'> <br><center><i>The Resurrection of Christ</i></center></td> <td>   </td> <td><img src='http://vaticanstamps.org/VPS/images/296/906.jpg' height='175px'> <br><center><b>906 (1992)</center></b></td></tr> </table> </center><br><br>