St. John the Evangelist

Piero della Francesca's Saint John the Evangelist, painted around 1454 for The Frick Collection, is a fragment of the Augustinian polyptych. The beloved disciple of Christ was traditionally depicted as a youthful, beardless figure holding his Gospel Piero della Francesca brought mathematical precision and monumental stillness to his figures, creating some of the most geometrically pure compositions in all of Renaissance painting Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of the period, dem

The evangelist displays Piero's characteristic monumental geometry, the red robe rendered in simplified folds with the even, analytical light and geometric clarity that distinguish his approach to sacred figures.