Who pioneered perspective in Renaissance art? Piero's 'Baptism of Christ' | National Gallery
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2024
- Find out why National Gallery Director, Gabriele Finaldi, has chosen Piero della Francesca's 'Baptism of Christ' for his Picture of the Month, as we mark the beginning of the Gallery's Bicentenary year in May 2024.
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Congratulations on 200 years, National Gallery is a great place to work for.
What a cool job to be the director of a national gallery.
Thank you for proving these incredible short videos. I live in the U.S. and won't have an opportunity to visit, but now I can see and learn about your wonderful collections. Happy anniversary!
Really glad to share the opportunity for you to appreciate our collection from afar! Thank you for watching our videos.
Never disappointed. Great mini seminar.
A marvellous presentation of an exquisite work. Thank you very much.
Such an amazingly beautiful painting, and so well preserved. Thank you, it is wonderful to hear you speaking about history.
Thank you so much for the educational effort and the wonderful explanation.
Thank you for watching!
Beautiful - thank you.
I would love to live in a museum 🫣
There actually used to be a family who lived in our gallery!! Subscribe for the video about them, coming soon :)
Какая честь, быть директором такого музея! Спасибо, что разрешили привезти эту картину на выставку в Эрмитаж в 2019 году. Впечатление ошеломительное, ходила на выставку 2 раза. Экран не передает необыкновенный белый цвет в картинах. Всем мира и добра!
I congratulate the Gallery on such an important anniversary. Having just spent a few hours in the Renaissance exhibit, in the basement, on my recent visit to UK, I want to confirm how awe inspiring it all is to a Canadian from our backwoods. Thank you.
So glad you enjoyed your trip to see us! Thank you for visiting :)
A beautiful picture
Thank you so much for this very interesting explanation about Piero della Francesca's painting. Congratulations on your 200 anniversary! 👏
I'm not sure I understood correctly.. this painting was never restored in its 600 years?? 😮
Thank you , never tire of looking .
Congratulations on 200 years! What a beautiful painting and wonderful analysis. I’d love to know which paintings were part of the original collection when the gallery opened. Thank you for the video
Thank you!! We have lots of content about our history coming out this year. Subscribe if you haven't already to make sure you don't miss any of these fab stories. You can also read about the beginnings of our collection here: www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/history/collectors-and-benefactors/john-julius-angerstein
@@nationalgallery That's wonderful, thank you!
Beautiful painting and excellent presentation. Though it doesn't answer the question posed in the headline: who did pioneer perspective in Renaissance art?
I guess the answer is in the title: Piero did.
Well! Architect Filippo Brunelleschi devised the concept of linear perspective. But Piero, featured in this video, pioneered the use of it during the Renaissance. He was also a mathematical theorist. This interest is reflected in the clearly defined volume of the figures and accurate perspective in his works.
Happy 200 anniversary.. I can't remember how long I have been a member, I remember every video I have watched with your lecturers. Watched a half dozen today to catch up! Thank you, from San Francisco, CA. I am a language educator, studying Art History for decades ( and in many museums).
Wow, thanks for your lovely comment and for watching so many videos!
Thank you for being a Member, Lynn. We're so glad you're enjoying our videos! More to come!
Such a masterful presentation of a great artwork!! 👏👏🙏🙏No better way to celebrate the bicentennary month of The National Gallery than to make this Renaissance masterpiece the artwork of the month on such a momentous occasion !!😊😊❤❤
Thanks for watching and celebrating our birthday month with us!
This is Awesome!
I'm so glad this was recommended to me.
200 years.. wow.
Happy 200th birthday 🎉 and thanks for the excellent presentation
Congrats on 200 years! It's been many years since I donated, and I'm glad to see you have managed without me. :) I need to add that I know there are several videos that the NG has put up about this particular painting, discussing it in detail (I think after some restoration? I can't be bothered to look, and I'm old, so you can't make me), so I know I've had the opportunity to study this painting at some length - though this is the thing about "studying" isn't it? One really needs to study and study more and more; I think it should be hanging in my living room, that would help - yet, this is the first time that I've recognized, i.e., consciously become cognizant of the fact, that the guy in the background who is preparing for his baptism is wearing BVDs! I'm amazed. You know, all the paintings you see from that time they all wear those tourniquets. I mean, not just Jesus, but, for instance, the two thieves or whatever they were who were crucified along with Jesus, they wore that lap-dance type underwear, too, but here this guy is wearing briefs much like those cheap ones I get at Target. I think that's a miracle.
This is one of my favourite paintings in the gallery (along with The Nativity). Very beautiful and very interesting. Thank you :)
Aw so lovely to hear this - thanks for watching!
Felicidades por los doscientos años de la Galería Nacional.
Un gran placer poder verle señor Gabriele Finaldi.
Realizó una importante labor como Director Adjunto de Conservación e Investigación del Museo del Prado y la National Gallery también se beneficiará de su trabajo como Director de la misma.
I Love Piero della Francesca¡¡¡🙏🏻❤❤❤❤🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for this video ❤
Great video, thank you!
We are so lucky that at some point some fortunate and sensitive people of the past got the idea to save the history of art for posterity. It gives us this connection through time to the humanity of man from hundreds of years ago. This is regardless of technique or the subject matter. It´s just so important to be able to feel the past sensation of the human spirit through something like painting, it just melts your ego and lets you appreciate the short breath that is even living. We are here but for a moment and then we are gone, whether we are rich or poor, sensitive or brutes, what remains is what people hang on to, and people hung on to Art, and I believe that that connection we made with our past selves as we handed down works of art allowed for an expansion of our consciousness that allowed for revolution and growth as a species. It´s too fascinating to leave it to robots, really. :)
A wonderful sentiment. Thank you for watching!
I went to one of the Camagalese monasteries in Tuscany with my Italian boyfriend when I was a visiting graduate student in Italian studies
Thank you for such a great talk on the Baptism of Christ by Pietro Della Francesca. It's good to be helped to understand such lovely works of art. One question: are the Three Kings being depicted in the lower right hand corner of the picture?
That was wonderful! The National Gallery is my favorite museum and congrats on 200 years!🎉. I just have one observation about the painting. I found it unusual for the man who is in the process of taking off his garment to be wearing tight underwear. I realize the painting is not meant to be true to life but I just never would have thought that a seemingly tight fitting underwear would even be possible in the 1400’s. Could it be that the artist decided to paint them on for modesty’s sake? I guess I assumed most men back then just didn’t wear undergarments. Interesting! 😊
Ainda vou aí ver de perto essa e outras maravilhas da arte italiana ❤
I wonder why he put that big white tree so prominent in the front and center.
Such a cool job
Congratulations.
Has the National Gallery team ever done any conservation on this painting and if so, what techniques did they use to preserve an almost 600 year old painting? I can't imagine that the team hasn't examined the work, the frame, any framing done on the back for support, etc. to make sure it is structually sound & so on.
Christ was bifurcated!? Lord painted at central joining of two panels - very strange
Spiffing