Title: Resurrection
Description: The Resurrection is a fresco painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, painted around 1463-65. It was painted for the Palazzo della Residenza in the town of Sansepolcro, Province of Arezzo, region of Tuscany, Italy. Today the palace is the town art museum. Though documentation is lacking, the Gothic-style Residenza, the communal meeting hall in which it was painted, was returned by Florentine authorities to the citizens of Sansepolcro, Tuscany, 1 February 1459, as a sign of the restoration of some measure of autonomy to the Borgo;Today the civic structure houses the Museo Civico of Sansepolcro, the artist's birthplace. placed high on the interior wall facing the entrance, the fresco has for its subject an allusion to the name of the city (meaning "Holy Sepulchre"), derived from the presence of two relics of the Holy Sepulchre carried by two pilgrims in the 9th century. Piero's Christ is also present on the town's Coat of Arms.
Author(s): Piero della Francesca