Do you want the allegory?
Charles Hope, 17 March 1983
Piero della Francesca’s ‘Baptism of Christ’
by Marilyn AronbergLavin.
Yale, 182 pp., £19.50, January 1982,0 300 02619 6 Show More
by Marilyn AronbergLavin.
Yale, 182 pp., £19.50, January 1982,
“... conceal a wealth of esoteric symbolism. None of them, however, seem to have gone quite as far as Marilyn AronbergLavin, who has devoted an entire book to explaining a picture which at first sight appears entirely straightforward. When the Baptism of Christ was first exhibited in Piero’s native town of Sansepolcro ... ”